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Caffeinated Comfort by ~mirroredtruths:iconmirroredtruths:

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Gazing at a memory
I lift the coarse paper
cup to my tentative lips
and pour the searing coffee down
my sand paper throat
sore from harsh
words left unspoken

The liquid scalds
my tongue burning
away the feel of
yours and I
gulp it down
smothering
your sweet flavor
with bitter tastes of
caffeinated comfort

I lean my head back
against cold brick and
close my bloodshot eyes but
I'm still staring
at a memory I wish
didn't exist
©2006-2009 ~mirroredtruths
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Author's Comments

Written a grand total of two seconds ago.

Yay?

No explanation for this.

None that I feel like sharing, at least.

I bet you're smart enough to guess, though.

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~kalix Feb 28, 2006, 9:22:34 AM
'searing coffee' and 'sandpaper throat' just go together so wonderfully, and the poem as a whole...just draws you in :)

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08 FEB 2005
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~mirroredtruths Feb 28, 2006, 2:21:10 PM
Thanks very much :) And for the fav, as well.

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans--John Lennon

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~openwound88 Feb 28, 2006, 5:46:46 PM
that was so cool. i love the imagery. i love it.

i love coffee too. <3

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[if you feel like dying you might want to sing.]
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~mirroredtruths Feb 28, 2006, 6:20:25 PM
~smile~ Thanks. Coffee = the best legal drug ever.

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The Suas salute you.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans--John Lennon

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~openwound88 Feb 28, 2006, 6:40:13 PM
Haha. True that.

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[if you feel like dying you might want to sing.]
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~entmoot Feb 28, 2006, 7:09:33 PM
Ooooh. I love it. The title, the poem, it's all lovely. Looooverly.

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.I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean.
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~mirroredtruths Feb 28, 2006, 7:43:36 PM
Thankyou.

--
The Suas salute you.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans--John Lennon

Member of:
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:iconkalix:
~kalix Mar 1, 2006, 8:52:21 AM
you're welcome :)

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08 FEB 2005
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~lime-colored-overcoa Mar 1, 2006, 1:47:47 PM
This is really ... not-pretty? well, not in the "sparkly sunshine and glowiness" kind of way.. more in the "struck silent by its form" kind of pretty, the kind that means more and lasts longer. I like it very, very much.

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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -Edgar Bergen
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