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Ball Of Stress

December 11, 2015
By futurista12 ELITE, Far Rockaway, New York
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"And though she be but little, she is fierce."- Shakespeare

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I am stretched taut

Wound like the film inside of a cassette tape

Strung like carefully tuned guitar strings

I am tight

Hunched over like I cannot bend out

I cannot stretch out

Anybody got a stress ball?

© Michelle S., Stanford, CT

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