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[aid] => mick
[title] => Can't Wait Until Graduation
[time] => 2009-10-18 02:32:03
[hometext] => I'm ready to move on.
[bodytext] => The scene has ended but we’re still on stage The lights are still on, no one notices but me You actors and audience look at me expectantly I’ve got nothing more to say; I’m ready for a change But this eerie silence is scary, unduly strange. Scenery frayed, dusty, gray from overuse It’s been a long play and it hasn’t changed one bit I’ve memorized every single inch of it. Maybe it’s time I say the lines I pick and choose, This time the winner won’t win, the loser won’t lose. I imagine the act’s end, wearing purple robes Crying, saying goodbye, so happy to be done Seemingly effortless survival, really a war won. But it’s many more scenes of all this nothing Before I hear that fat lady belatedly sing. It feels like years more of actor’s clothing, Of lines I didn’t write, didn’t want to say Before I have the chance to get my way. I’ll be off this drafty stage, living at last With all this pretend a mistake long past. [comments] => 0 [counter] => 133 [topic] => 21 [informant] => Chamaron [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 2 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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