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'Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.'
-- Cyril Connolly (1903 -1974)



Coffee And Cigarettes by Miss Macabre http://allpoetry.com/poem/5885913

I see tea candles and Persian carpets
when I read her calligraphy.
She's the voice of an amber cherry
on an incense stick,
emitting the fumes of ancient spices
and curling clouds of smoke.

Her words are like a gypsy legend,
art beyond the grasp of imagination
though she's finely polished her mosaics of fractured words,
every crystal shard delivers the stinging slap of reality.

I see her world through frosted glass,
where winter spreads over icy streets.
She plucks opals from the pain.

But most importantly I feel her poetry,
it etches its brilliance on the inside of my skull like hieroglyphs,
slivers of a creative mind untainted by the stark reality that smothers us all.

She's cappuccino and maraschino cherries
and she doesn't even know why.



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  • Kastor : Watch this Whitney . . . on October 29
    In just under 15 seconds I generated a report that tells me what I already know about you. Pretend I didn't know anything about your work, I'd read through more of it because of this report. Then I would find out that I like your style. It can't tell me if I'll like the way you use the kinds of words indicated, or if you're writing poetry or prose. It can't tell me if you're using sarcasm and inverting the positivity of words. It can't tell me if everything you write has erotic subliminal messages, or is based on a stoic philosophy. What it does do though, is read 28622 words in seconds, spit out a basic report, and tell me if you use words like I and woe too much. Take a look at you on the whole. . .

    LIWC Results
    Details of Writer: 21 year old Female
    Date/Time: 29 October 2009, 3:31 pm

    LIWC dimension, Your data, Personal texts, Formal texts,
    Self-references (I, me, my), 5.78, 11.4, 4.2,
    Social words, 9.21, 9.5, 8.0,
    Positive emotions, 2.33, 2.7, 2.6,
    Negative emotions, 1.82, 2.6, 1.6,
    Overall cognitive words, 6.69, 7.8, 5.4,
    Articles (a, an, the), 5.75, 5.0, 7.2,
    Big words (> 6 letters), 18.20, 13.1, 19.6,

    The text you submitted was 28622 words in length.

    So self references comes closer to formal texts than personal texts.
    Social words comes closer to personal texts.
    Positive emotions are . . . well, you might find more of them in a math book.
    Negative emotions. . . there are a few more of these than in the newspaper but not enough of them to say you're emo or average.
    Cognitive words are closer to personal texts than formal, but again you're not so "I and woe" so this number makes sense.
    Articles . . . well, if there isn't a lot to um . . . like . . . you know.
    Big words, you poets and your multisyllabic expressions of internal and external sensory stimuli and psychic reaction. *sigh*

    So whitney uses big words to describe her social environment. The tone is negative most times, but not so much so that you'd want to call her emoriffic or anything. I could read her work and make the assumption that I won't see much wrist slashing because she doesn't reference herself enough. Maybe I would like this collection of works . . . Let's see if she makes the words do pretty tricks . . .
  • Miss Macabre on October 20
    Your page is so white. I feel like I'm stepping into some white poetry portal where everything tastes like cappuccino and maraschino cherries.
  • Darc Raven on October 4
    "Vf2thekill : Hey now that were friends - on September 22
    you can just borrow dem batteries..."


    *would wonder what you need the batteries for*

    lol j/k...
  • Vf2thekill : HAPPY BIRTHDAY! on October 2
    you say it's your Birthday - well
    it's my Birthday too Yeah!!! (almost)

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