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- From: PROWSE@Meena.CC.URegina.CA (Natalie)
- Subject: one too many / Natalie
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.223811.1341063@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:38:11 GMT
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- Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada
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- one too many
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- cool white tiles
- on my cheek. my cheek
- pressed on cool white tiles.
- light streaming under the door.
- the gap like a lens. i swear
- the light bends
- from here on
- the floor.
- it seems cooler
- too. in the dark.
- the lightswitch is just
- out of reach of my ability
- to make it look normal in here.
- the world looks so different
- from this lowly perspective.
- and it feels so much nicer
- to feel cool white tiles
- on my cheek. and to
- watch the feet.
- playing games at guessing
- which toes belong to voices
- disembodied. my body long
- gone and numb. all i
- feel now is cool
- white tiles on
- my cheek.
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- -Natalie / Dec 21, 1992
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- "It's good to have a healthy sense of sin. It adds *spice* to one's
- transgressions..." - J.H.
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