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Daily Lit Deviations for January 31^st, 2012

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Poetry

_{Suggested by: archelyxs
Featured by: LadyofGaerdon}
the less i knowsomething new: my breath hitched but the words meant nothing.
i owed the light peserverent flattery in the form of prose,
stories of what could have been.
the gloom in which i slept was a system altogether unable to measure up to the new universe;
to exist together in perfect cognition is first to understand that i never wish to be better.
how pitiable this impure form to which we all succumb
littered with stars. i am temporary like them, almost, always and never.
I have forgotten how to live. it is late mornings during which i upturn my lazy eyes to the sky
against it's will. there, like you, live millions- and my mind is reborn.
the day comes. easily her gentle beckoning fills our minds. the sky is golden-blue:
unmasterable. we retract our wicked claws and our majestic selves
are now only threats we cannot perceive.
we lie nestled like tired humans together in the cold grass, and the blades are shining
wet with the tears of the dawn. we're late. we're forgotten
you touch the e
"the less i know" by hyperfluxy

<sub>From the suggester: "With a surprise
waiting on every line, hyperfluxy
weaves startling images and philosophical
perceptions into a symphony that is pure
delight. A must-read."


Suggested by: LiliWrites
Featured by: spoems</sub>
Le CleI smiled, once upon a time,
As mother's frantic eyes
And pinkened dimples sponsored
The morning's proceedings. Have you seen
                                     My keys?                     
                                          Small little moments-
                                       
Le Cle by paintedpoetry

_{From the suggester: ":devndris970 caught
the confusion of dementia perfectly in this
well-paced poem."}

Prose

_{Featured by doodlerTM}

Tiddy Mun by RussianTim

<sub>A quaint short fiction piece a
bout a mythical creature living in
the present-day.


Featured by LiliWrites</sub>
Big Basketball Bus Bash.        There are a lot of moments in my life that stick out. There's the time my dog actually tripped me while I was going down the stairs when I was four – but hey, that's not very interesting. Then there's all those times someone decided it'd be fun to embarrass me in front of a whole crowd of people – but I'm not particularly interested in going there. There's a whole list of events or comments that I wish I could forget – so I decided to dig in that pile. And that's where I found what I wanted to write about. It's not the most interesting thing in the world, and it's definitely a more personal topic (for me, at least), but it's important enough that I can't help but not talk about it. I like to call it the Big Basketball Bus Bash (because alliteration makes everything seem funnier).
        Let's kick this one off by stating a fact that most people probably don't know about me
Big Basketball Bus Bash by Jez123

<sub>This heartfelt, revealing memoir remind
us all that what we say can be just as hurtful
as what we do and that ignorance, in whatever
form, is damaging.


Featured by: SilverInkblot</sub>
The CartI always got my best book recommendations from my old library cart. Well, the library cart wasn't really mine. I was a shelver at my town's library, before I started college, and I would use their carts to do my job.
I first noticed something was up with the cart when I was shelving juvenile paperbacks. These were the lightest books we owned (and kept in the worst shape - kids are brats). But when I was rolling the cart, it was heavy. It groaned when I pushed it, and steering it was a mini-workout. It wasn't this hard to move a double-stack of adult non-fiction.
What was really odd, though, was as I removed more books, it barely got lighter. Finally, when all of the Fairy Princesses, Mary Kate and Ashley's, and other stupid books were shelved, its weight became normal. Only R.L. Stine's Goosebumps remained, and it was actually pretty light, even lighter than I'd expect.
I shrugged the incident off. But then I noticed it happening more and more. And then I noticed patterns
The Cart by Darthmat

_{A really creative piece of
magical realism whose inspiration
that came from an unusual place.}



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