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Sterile

September 25, 2011
By crux1 GOLD, Inez, Kentucky
crux1 GOLD, Inez, Kentucky
14 articles 4 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Some feel the rain, others just get wet." -Bob Dylan.
"What kind of beast would turn it's life into words?" - Adrienne Rich


A bottle with a cork wedged into it's opening, that's what you were. Closed as tight as the lip of the lid could close,









bent.
And you with your sealed vault, mocking as it may be, it took me up, a liquid forming to whatever shape it loosely could. And you put the flame underneath every last inch, and I felt it. I felt it.
Butane pasteurization, I don't understand. Where is the flint, that shot the spark, into my arms and the bends of each hand?
Pressure application, and every inch of life that's tainted falls away or melts into something smaller, something harder to find,
Harder to see
harder to kill.


But still there.
Bleach me white, every inch of me, until I am glowing so, as to think I am god herself.
But I am.
White headed, white arm hairs goose bump, goose appendage standing up, milk white skin pouring into whatever shape it loosely can, white mind, blind eyes...



























hands, red.
Purge. Purge.
Pour.
I feel ashamed, lost in the minds version of the truth. Purge, purge. Stand.
The air got to me before you could, turning me stale, turning me sour.
And in the last moments of time, you uncork your hole, allowing me to pour every inch of my blind white self into you,
filling you up.
Emptying myself.
The whole-ist hole, a liquid's felt.

The author's comments:
Written about the way my girlfriend makes me feel sane and clean. Even though I am pitifully dirty.

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on Sep. 27 2011 at 10:15 pm
Laurel15 BRONZE, Eastlake, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

W0W!!! This was really good. You have a way with words my friend!!!

on Sep. 27 2011 at 3:46 pm
RaineBeau BRONZE, LaGrange, Kentucky
1 article 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
\"You can sleep with a gun when you\'re gonna wake up and fight for yourself.\"

Awwh yay :3 glad I could help.

on Sep. 27 2011 at 2:39 pm
ArielleArmageddon PLATINUM, Charlotte, North Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
if i cant hear your heartbeat, you're too far away

this is quite beautiful. i love your writing style. i hope mine matures as much one day

on Sep. 27 2011 at 1:14 pm
willowwriter GOLD, Rogers, Arkansas
13 articles 0 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
"no matter who you are, where you come from, or where you are going, you are always loved"

I like this a great deal. Great work.

crux1 GOLD said...
on Sep. 26 2011 at 10:41 pm
crux1 GOLD, Inez, Kentucky
14 articles 4 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Some feel the rain, others just get wet." -Bob Dylan.
"What kind of beast would turn it's life into words?" - Adrienne Rich

Thank you very much! Your comment made my day.

on Sep. 26 2011 at 3:56 pm
RaineBeau BRONZE, LaGrange, Kentucky
1 article 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
\"You can sleep with a gun when you\'re gonna wake up and fight for yourself.\"

I actually really like this.