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It Was Too Foreign

October 22, 2009
By ladymonster GOLD, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
ladymonster GOLD, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
The vastest things are those we may not learn.<br /> We are not taught to die, nor to be born,<br /> Nor how to burn<br /> With love.<br /> How pitiful is our enforced return<br /> To those small things we are the masters of.<br /> --Mervyn Peake


It was too foreign,
like another language was being
breathed into my mouth,
and I thought of the first time
I spoke with an accent--
warm and nervous,
hesitant to make a mistake,
so eager to please--
and I then felt cold, unresponsive



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