Daily Literature Deviations for May 28th, 2012

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Daily Lit Deviations for May 28th, 2012

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Poetry

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Featured by LiliWrites

Broken SmileIt was a perfect thing. White
As lilies, the kind of thing
Time ages with wry hands
Thinking, "Beautiful, beautiful"
"Let me hold it, see it
Glow under my thumb, will it
Extinguish if I press
Too hard?"
I wonder if I can mend it
Mirror-like, the cracks shine with
A feeble light. Teeth,
All in disarray, gemstone-
Studded graves
All made of marble white.
The curve of the lips is distorted,
Wrapped too much around a tongue
Twisted like a broken arm. Almost
As if it were coerced into a sneer
Blackmailed into bending itself
At two dozen different places
Resembling a corpse in a pretzel
Machine, more than anything.
Lie in my hand, little smile.
I will superglue you back
The best I can.
But the damage is already done.
Whether from a broken mind, life
Or a heart, well.
Who says a smile can't be put back together
Good as new, better than before?
The streets from where your teeth were shattered;
They're no runway for you to strut down.
But they can be the road
To a better brand of suffering, yes

Suggester writes: "This imaginative poem is playful

with ideas and words. It's a piece about collapse

and recovery, painted in wild imagery."

Featured by: betwixtthepages

namenotrequired high lights the everyday

struggle of a writer to find a unique way to share

our thoughts on love with the rest of the world

with this lovely rhyming poem.

Featured by: Nichrysalis

Nothing comes close to exemplifying the poignancy

and power of this writer's words than the opening and

closing stanzas and the cruelty that is wedged between them.

Prose

Featured by LiliWrites

There's some fantastic visualization in this piece.

Mixed with a very believable character, it makes

for fine writing and an immersed reading experience.

Featured by shebledgreenink

Of Idiocy and InevitabilityIt is a generally acknowledged law amongst those who devise and create mechanical contraptions that, if there is a way to use a device for something other than its intended purpose, someone will invariably find it. There also exists a second law, related directly to the first, which, in plain English, states the following: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. And (though this is generally not mentioned around paying customers) there is a third.
'Never assume intelligence on the part of your client.'
A good mechanic, holding to these three principles, might flatter himself that he could create a mechanism or machine which would be, in common parlance, idiot-proof. He might believe that there would be no possible way in which someone could, through sheer blind stupidity, accidentally do something as ridiculous as, for example, setting themselves and their laboratory on fire, or (through a series of increasingly bizarre mishaps and coincidences) discovering the secret o

A hilarious blend of zany plot teaser and sardonic

narrative voice. As one commenter said, "I [expletive] love this."

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