girls buy shoes to match their veins,
the cartography under flesh
telling them
the distance from popular opinion.
Author notes
name: narcissus at oasis
18 words
A contest entry
- brevity by Melissa Gayle.
3600 points, ended November 26, 2007, 20 entries
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490 points, ended December 8, 2007, 21 entries
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Comments
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this was amazing.

[would have prefered a more elaborated poem from you]
but still...this is profound. -
wow
short and profound


