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Formerly Brightside17 and 17ShadesofBlack.


Go away. Look at some of these people:
They all have much better poetry than me.

My Friends
allpoetry.com/Poets/hollowandconfused (huggles- I love Kayblah so much.
This is for her: <-- She deserves a bouquet.)
allpoetry.com/Poets/horsegirljen10 (Jenny and Marlo rule my world. Jen is hilarious: Check out this girl's deviantart, under the same screenname- the link is on her homepage)
allpoetry.com/Poets/27%20Secrets (Banana is an amazing friend but she writes a lot, uploads a little... so what's there is only a sample of her great work)
allpoetry.com/Poets/messageinabottle14 (Kelly's new to AP- give her a couple days and she'll stun you all with her stuff)
allpoetry.com/Poets/Anatiferous (Gabby! Read her poems full of cool words and bloody white roses! *hug and rum*)

and my deviantart is Brightside17.deviantart.com
Check out Jen (horsegirljen10.deviantart.com) and Meg (bystander42.deviantart.com)


"We're all mad here." ~ The Cheshire cat (Lewis Carroll)

"A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhicker can have." ~ Douglas Adams

"Music makes my blood flow. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a favorite song. I just want to be the messenger." ~Brandon Flowers

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it." ~ Danny Kaye

"What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?" ~ Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)

"Life is wasted on the living." ~ Douglas Adams

"Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter." ~ Dave Barry

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands." ~ Douglas Adams

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." ~ Terry Pratchett

"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem." ~ from HGthG, by Douglas Adams

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." ~ Douglas Adams

"It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living." ~ Terry Pratchett

"Now bring me that horizon!" ~ Cpt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp)

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." ~ from HGthG, by Douglas Adams

"I told you about strawberry feilds, where nothing is real..." from Glass Onion by the Beatles

"If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied, illuminate the 'No's on their vacancy signs" ~from I'll Follow You into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." ~ Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)

" 'If I live, I will kill you. If I die, you are forgiven.' Such is the rule of honor." ~ from Omerta, by Lamb of God

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?" ~ Stephen Wright

"I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way." Danny Kaye

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." ~ Stephen Chbosky

"You think I can't fly? Well you just watch me!" ~ from Gravity by the Dresden Dolls

"And I dream I'm an eagle, and I dream I can spread my wings" ~ from Eagle by Abba

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?" ~Chuck Palahniuk

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living." ~ Dr.Suess

"Everything you know is wrong, black is white, up is down and short is long, And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter." ~ from Everything You Know is Wrong by Weird Al

"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent." ~ Dave Barry

"My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane." ~ Matt Schuker

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." ~ Albert Einstein

"I want to raise my freak flag higher and higher." ~ from How Can I Sing Like a Girl? by They Might be Giants

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' " ~
Charles M. Schultz

"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it." ~ Dave Barry