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[sid] => 81535
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Fire for Eyes
[time] => 2005-01-26 04:35:39
[hometext] => by Megan Hewitson
[bodytext] => I once met a girl who had fire for eyes She was too mad to live but too young to die In walking she sang with short swift strides And lit up the streets with her kindled eyes Slight subtle and sad, she wept embers for tears With soot on her face she’d been crying for years Only pathos were felt from those who were near But flinched at the sight of something so queer What a burden she felt of her infernal gift To the roof of St. Vincent’s alienated and adrift Mad to live but eternally bereft A blanket of ash was all that was left [comments] => 3 [counter] => 193 [topic] => 36 [informant] => YellowBeetleSB [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 15 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Suicide )
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