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Daily Lit Deviations for November 17^th, 2013

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Poetry

_{Suggested by: VFreie
Featured by: UnspecifiedUnknown}
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Prelude in Bb Major (Mothers Under the Eastern Sky) by MatthewLittle

<sub>Per the suggester: "A poem that
packs a lot of rhythm and haunting
imagery in so few lines."


Featured by: SilverInkblot</sub>
Don't be boringA
good poem
makes you wish
you had written it.
A bad
one
restores your faith
in television.
Don't be boring by Anthony-Ryan

<sub>The truest observations
are often the wittiest ones.


Suggested by: SereneCyrene
Featured by: hypermagical</sub>
canapescanapés
people devour
all-you-can-eat buffets
undeterred by the grease
and excesses and after the binge,
they stick a toothbrush
down their throats.
note to self:
emotions are just as fattening.
at the rate we are going,
i fear you will tire of me.
so please love me in bite sizes,
in portions to sustain us
through birthdays and christmases
and in servings
where you savour me
the way i savour you.
© 01.November.2013  
canapés by wispy-blue

_{What would our relationships
look like if we viewed them the
way we do our food?}

Prose

_{Featured by: SilverInkblot}
...your struggles have made you wisewhen the counsellor tells you your struggles have made you wise...
ask her how useful the knowledge of how many punches it takes to lay you cold on the floor will be in future. ask her if the endless frost that shivers under your fragile skin is going to turn out handy, a free cooling agent in the heated heights of summer. ask her where she was every morning when you took the pills and crumpled the plastic cup pathetic in your fist. ask her about the taste of toothpaste and bile, how she felt when the dentist marked the progression of decay and solemnly warned you to cut down on sweets. ask her how it feels to keep all those suicides filed away in her desk drawer knowing that they were never ‘wise’ enough to see another way out and through. ask her about the first time she drank until she threw up for hours after she’d become sober again because a boy wouldn’t touch her, or a girl wouldn’t give her a second glance. question everything because there&
... your struggles have made you wise by wander-mind

<sub>The strength in this piece is amazing,
and effectively uses a long, rambling prose
block to convey the outpouring of words
that won't seem to stop.


Featured by doodlerTM</sub>
Your Non-Existent CompetitionMy fingers hover over numbers I have not needed to think about for years, and I urge myself to make the call. Still hesitant, I pick out the digits that still translate to "home" in my mobile, though for years it has been only a house; sometimes mine, sometimes not. It rings once and I hang up, then try again and again and again. Third time might be the charm, but today it takes five of these hang ups before I stay on the line.
"Sorry," I say, knowing I don't sound very convincing but banking on the notoriously bad reception we get here to tick it over into believeable. "Sorry. I bet you got about a billion missed calls. My 'phone kept cutting out, you know what it's like." I laugh, an awkward bark that explodes from my mouth like our terrier chasing a cat, and she seems to accept it at face value. "Anyway, happy birthday, hey!"
She thanks me and we meander through the pleasantries she initiates, an elaborate dance of lies we move through every so often. We talk of cheap shops and craf
Your Non-Existent Competition by camelopardalisinblue

_{A cringing story about the
disregard for a person - when
the person in question happens
to be someone's own daughter.}




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