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Gateway Drug
Title: Gateway Drug
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 451 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gateway Drug
When I asked him over beers one night
what the meaning of life was, my friend Alex replied
we all think we're ugly,
but we're not. And for once
I agreed with him--how seductive, the idea
that arbitrary cruelty might evaporate
if everyone felt beautiful
in their own skins. I went to talk
to the local eleventh grade class
about writing poetry, remembering over
and over again how everyone is asymmetrical then,
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…showed last 75 words of 451 total…Uneaten
lunches and uncovered books fly, everything slams, and blinded
we all get a good, fluorescent look at each other. I whisper, I want
to devour you and the moment you climb inside the world
stops yet we
keep going, launched into oblivion. You are the ecstasy beyond
the gateway, the path
where something opens for good; when, cracked
for just one moment
we are whole, accepted,
unjudged.
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