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From this pen protrudes a stain.
The stain is yellow and bends to my liking.
The stain is to show importance
where I might feel it necessary to accent.

Does this mean in the eyes of others
that this stain is important and should be recognized
beyond all other words of an author, being myself or another?

What I see as imminent in wisdom,
and concentrated in nature is only an opinion.
To be worthy of a higher privilege
is questionable.

This light that reflects
in notes of high reasoning
is so bright it is garish
and reflecting into the soul
my need for remembering this article.

If I had a highlighter of the soul,
what points would I mark?

Would they be ones of great achievement
or the darkest moments where death is near?

Would they be joyous or strife filled?

Would they make much sense to anyone but myself?

Would you highlight the same parts had you been given this miracle pen?

Things should be taken as whole.
Only in their entirety can you find meaning.

Scribbled thoughts that out do the rest
conquer no ones mind but personal self reasoning.

Would I share what I have highlighted with you,
or would I keep it to myself therefore not highlighting
anything at all but shadowing because I know
what it means to me and you do not?

I won't pass on the book that I have marred
with this pen for it is worthless
now without open interpretation
it is tarred with my presence.

Forget it ever was or came to be.

 

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Stream of consciousness can not be subdued to a line limit, sorry.

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  • Exodus gold member
    March 6, 2008

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    These two lines right here;
    "If I had a highlighter of the soul,
    what points would I mark?"
    Were pretty much my amazement for the day.
    Thank you, this was great


  • JohnnyD gold member
    February 12, 2008

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    Damn it Alex you get better and better each week, you do! look at this one you just did and look back on ones you did last, say, October???

    Now,as for highlighting, I was always too damn cheap to buy a highlighter. Instead I'd shoplift an Exacto knife and deflty cut out the sections I liked and taped them inside my trouser legs at the library. And it worked pretty damn well unless I got home and forgot and put them in the wash?

    I would always leave ragged edges where I cut them out because the library thought they had a serious case of moths or bookworms. I would also sprinkle a little pepper on the pages, just a little to mimic bookworm droppings.

    That library spent $47,688.40 for fumigation the first two years I was lifting those quotes.

    That exacto blade came in very handy over the years, espescially when danny tried to steal my lunch one day and I impaled his hand on the library table with the exacto knife. it really did not bleed much but the fool almost had a heart attack when he could not remove it from his hand.

    anyhow, we can go to the library together friday if you prefer? teach you how to handle a blade?



    Gander


    • alexandrathegreat
      February 12, 2008
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      So you stole from a book I wouldn't exactly call that highlighting would you? That isn't a great substitute; an Exacto blade for a highlighter. Well whatever wets your whistle. Thank you. I really gave this one my all.


  • Devils Reject
    February 12, 2008

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    Very introspective piece. I really like it a lot. Good luck in the contest

  • laxrocks33
    February 12, 2008

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    I love the series of questions you pose. The harshness of your language really contributes to the overall theme of your stream of consciousness. Nice work.

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