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Comfortable Corpses

I lay there dead
At last not a care
No more fighting to live
I am dead
Comfortable here



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ABOUT THE POET ~
Raquel Lake is a new up and coming poet. Much of her original work can be found on her tumblr blog and upcoming first book of poetry, Love. Besides writing about love, in her work she gives voice to the unheard and marginalized. She lives in the DC area with her three sons.


Quotes of the Day

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes

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Poems of the Day
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    He said drop your notebook the temple is everywhere. He said a magic mushroom would eliminate tennis nose and lend feather atmosphere. We dropped the drop. Chimney memory oceaned away. I felt ...