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Someday (parisiantwist)

ParisianTwist's picture
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Some day I'll be a Suicide Girl, a pin up queen with pop-art lips and a body only those dedicated to tattoos and piercings, rainbow coloured hair and trashy rock star babies adore.

Some day I'll be a wife two kids and a life I wish I could trade in for a mint condition copy of my favourite record. I promise I won't drive a mini van, they're a little too big in back for my taste.

Someday I'll get drunk and make out with a girl in the rain. We'll share a cigarette the one am tram to London and I'll realize the the only reason I'm there is because... because I can't stand the sickening thought of going back to my "family".

Some day I'll let someone tie me up and slap me around, you know, just to prove I can survive. Or maybe, it's just because thats what love is, isnt it?

Some day, I'll be a sixty year old woman living in a penthouse suit somewhere in Europe. I'll have a bunch of cats. Grey ones, Calico ones, I've always liked the black and white ones. I'll have a male maid, a student from the local art school. I'll write children's book in between nights filled with cheap gin and clove smokes, hiding in the daytimes, in closets and allyways looking for a little bit of inspiration. The pages will fill up with pen and ink drawings of ravens and homeless women, stories of love affairs gone awry. Children won't read them, but they'll have heard of me.

Some day, I'll grow up and realize that only some of this is true. Only some of this can happen. Which parts are the truth? Well, that's up to me.

NeonKiwi's picture

Hey,

This is pretty cool. I like how you overlapped your reading with the song. Nice!
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sinisterVT's picture

I really liked it, however

I really liked it, however why did you do the voice? I think it takes away from the elegance of the poem maybe that's what you were going for but maybe you should try to do one with a more...softer tone. I'm not sure.

ParisianTwist's picture

I used the gravelly voice

I used the gravelly voice for two reason:
The first:
because I was sick.
The second?
because I was thinking about ho wI might sound... someday.
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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sinisterVT's picture

maybe you want to try to use

maybe you want to try to use a different voice for each section?

ParisianTwist's picture

Interesting

Interesting thought....

maybe I will, if I don't take this down.
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
-Voltaire

Real Eyes: realize: real lies

sinisterVT's picture

Yeah I could see a very

Yeah I could see a very gravely voice for the first one I think that fit

not sure about the others maybe a bright clean voice for the second

dono

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