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Autistic

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on May 11, 2008 - 19:44.

She told me with
slippery-happy words
that I should
write something about
her.
Speech slurred.
Grinning just
a bit
too
much.

I just smiled,
knowing that

she could never understand
what that smile
really
meant.

(It means that
I already do.)

SnowStars's picture

Wow. The parenthesis are a

Submitted by SnowStars on May 11, 2008 - 20:38.

Wow. The parenthesis are a nice touch! That is a very sweet piece of writing.
:)SnowStars

Anonymous's picture

Thank you. Parenthesis are

Submitted by Anonymous on May 11, 2008 - 20:40.

Thank you.
Parenthesis are definitely fun to play around with... almost as much fun as ellipses. :)
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