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mother malice by ~ArthurPewty:iconArthurPewty:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Nature > Open


mother malice

i.

she called it "luck",
the way they always surfaced
at just the right time.

i called it "cheating":
cutting the deck with
half-furtive eyes, she
stole the game.

(you can't win at everything, I suppose)

ii.

Outside -
the air smells like church:
Palm Sunday fronds and
Lenten incense;
the penitent sweat in
patent-leather shoes, and
the floor is piled deep
with whispered sins.
©2005-2009 ~ArthurPewty
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Author's Comments

i wrote this yesterday, and i'm posting it from the house of a friend of a friend. Also, I'm posting it from memory, and I won't have any way to get back to it before Sunday, so it might suddenly change on Sunday, depending on whether I remembered it right. I dunno. It's in two parts. And I'm not changing the "Outside -" part. Anything else, I'm open for.

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~SteelCoyoteMaikeira Aug 7, 2005, 5:19:49 PM
Wow...Just Wow...

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~InfiniteOne Aug 7, 2005, 5:20:22 PM
Hm..I like it...since it's so different from my style...I can't really say much..^^;

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~Misaniovent Aug 8, 2005, 6:32:37 AM
I don't think anyone is going to ask you to change it.

Excellent.

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~TheSundowner Aug 8, 2005, 7:51:23 AM
Cool one again Mr Pewty
Deidre Pewty will be proud
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~Chey-Chey Aug 8, 2005, 8:40:09 AM
Interesting... Nicely done. Grammar could use some work though ;)

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~chivel4u Aug 8, 2005, 6:01:33 PM
i like it its really good it is differnt from everones style that makes it uniqk

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if ephesians says to imitate christ
then why do you look so much like the world?
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~ArthurPewty Aug 8, 2005, 8:48:14 PM
grammar? pshh. ;)

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~ArthurPewty Aug 8, 2005, 8:48:49 PM
thanks, mate! glad you liked it.

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-=- Bard College Class of '10 -=-

i heart the liberal arts!
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~ArthurPewty Aug 8, 2005, 8:49:26 PM
glad you liked it so much!

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-=- Bard College Class of '10 -=-

i heart the liberal arts!
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