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the failed escape artist

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LionesseRampant

Published: Nov 1, 2013

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she is a snowflake-skinned sigh
floating on the winds of Eurus,
playing tic-tac-toe on her skin.
she always comes out the loser

standing on the road between
two worlds, she wonders when
she started to read the map wrong,

     because this isn’t the
     second star from the right.

she can burn the pictures,
but she can’t burn her memories.
               and damn it,
her wanderlust is trying to
pull her up, up, and away
but the desolation is keeping
its slimy tentacle wrapped
around her ankle and

it

      won’t

                      let

                                go.

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For `FuzzyHoser's Keep It Colloquial Contest.

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EDIT 11/02/13: Changed "plays" to "playing" and took off the last two lines for impact.