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Waiting for the Gun
Two minutes. Waiting.
My heart is ready to burst.
The lanes are naked, clean,
ready to be torn up by cleats
and sweat.
Hundreds of eyes blinking and
staring.
Chatter swarmed into a calm
storm underneath this dome.
Waiting is the hardest part.
The anticipation, building.
Struggling to breathe as I
strategize.
Faster here.
Ease up here.
Go for the…
ContinueAdded by Jett Wells on May 25, 2011 at 1:54pm — No Comments
Wanna be in my Book? A Contest
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Added by Gaetan Pappalardo on May 21, 2011 at 8:18am — 1 Comment
Teaching Vocab to the Rugrats
Added by Gaetan Pappalardo on May 16, 2011 at 10:01pm — No Comments
Too Good/No Control
My beginning: No control.
Outside the window, the cold wind is howling and whipping back forth. Inside, deafening electronic music is pounding while dozens of drunken college kids slam their heads and blow their fists in the air. Steaming red lights beam into the room as half-drunk girls sip from their red cups and drift their eyes across the room, trying to latch on to something. Inside, the walls are cheap, paint chips crumbling and tumbling off. Fifty-something Syracuse…
ContinueAdded by Jett Wells on May 6, 2011 at 11:09am — No Comments
Memory Lanes
Any day like today
Yesterday or
Tomorrow.
A lonely long sidewalk.
Music
Spearing from ear to ear
The same steps you’ve walked
Your entire life.
Notes building, gentle.
Gliding sounds stringing
Your childhood from birth in a
Rushing creek of experiences.
A vision way never seen before.
Step, step, step.
Breathe in, breathe out.
The heartbreak floating…
ContinueAdded by Jett Wells on May 6, 2011 at 11:08am — 1 Comment
Suna ni oshiro:sandcastle
Japanese:Sotto na kareru shiro ni kawaitaku na kato de hairo no watashi wa tada jitte kieteiku no miteite.
English:In the quietly withering castle in a thisrty time of change an ash colored me is just vanishing slowly watching.
Japanese:Hoshi wo atsumete tsukuru suna no oshiro ni watashi no sasavaka na inori konorete ochiru sono ashi no oto wa machibusete nagidasu no oto wa machibusete nagidasu
English:Gather the stars and build a sandcastle…
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Songs for Sane Schools
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