I don’t understand you.
You chased me away, and continue to follow.
Lest we forget, I’m basically a taste-test for tongues.
I call it rebound,
and you call it something a bit more unpleasant.
And yet still, here you are, it‘s been days-
does it not lose its novelty?
Do you not you skin your knees from all that pleading?
It’s a shame; this is something I could really miss.
But it’s not like I’m hanging on your every word,
waiting for the chance to jump down your throat with a pen.
(Yeah, the words still come out wrong when
they don’t snap at you.)
You should have seen this coming.
Author notes
Option 2. Getting caught in infidelity.
Mandy / BrightEyes-
A contest entry
- Lies. by rsheafer.
800 points, ended October 1, 2007, 18 entries
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"Do you not you skin your knees from all that pleading?"
Somehow seems off, and gets me stuck no matter how many times I try to read it.
Maybe it is because English, is not my first language?
Either way. I enjoyed. -
I like this.It says something to me, I've been with a guy that dumped me then as soon as he saw me with another guy, he'd freak and crawl back OVER AND OVER again. but good job.
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I love how open this piece is.
Favorite line:
"Do you not you skin your knees from all that pleading?"
Instead of, "You plead so much; are your knees skinned?"
A way of saying something with directly saying it. Good times.
Well done.
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