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1/6/2018 1:19:27 PM
Don't Shoot the Messenger	Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Don’t shoot when you see a coffee-coated vessel Imbued with historical cattle-prodding, showcasing a collective consciousness trampled Into submission by years of crocodile tears and homestead domestication. Don’t shoot when your glass house is pelted by pellets of retribution, Champagne corks long-overdue, and representation worthwhile. Don’t shoot when you see me or we absorb the scars Of our mothers and fathers And make joyful noise One pellet at a time. Don’t shoot the messenger.
1/6/2018 1:20:36 PM
Tinsel	Spattering sparks flicker in her eyes, highlighting each salty rivulet as they roll down on to the carpet stair. The jolly tunes are her confidant, the garland and tinsel her jury. “The car snapped in half,” she heard, failing to grasp how souls can be plucked like birthday cake candles, leaving deformed icing no one wants to lick. It was indeed a white Christmas, bloodless and loveless, deathly pale with tended fangs looking for love for sale. As she cried, and as the little drummer boy’s snare pops dragged slightly behind her bare sobs, she imagined how he slept in heavenly peace, his remnants reserved in her every last teardrop.
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