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Published: 2010-07-24 04:25:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 321; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 3
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Description it is summer, and the girls down the street have a lemonade stand. they offer free face painting with a sale, so i sip my drink - ten cents each - while they write love, literally, on my arms.

(i tipped them a dollar, for "excellent service". they awarded me flowers, daisies and delphiniums, and banana-boat, face-splitting smiles. i should have given them a hundred.)




it is summer, and somewhere the men on the streets sleep warm, saving shelter money for food and maybe a drink or two. the streets, now, smell sweet like garbage and acid like fire. snow, at least, pretends to be pure.




it is summer, and the beer flows faster as the mercury rises and of course the voices rise with them both. it is summer, let go, live a little, live a lot, live a whole year in one night and screw the pain. afterward, the cans lie abandoned for the hoboes to take them away to the depot, ten cents each.





(the lemonade came with a real wedge of lemon.)
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Comments: 12

sadicticvamprie [2010-08-14 08:48:28 +0000 UTC]

i like the lemonaid thing ., very cute

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gimpbeginner In reply to sadicticvamprie [2010-08-15 00:41:40 +0000 UTC]

thankee!

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sadicticvamprie In reply to gimpbeginner [2010-08-28 04:14:51 +0000 UTC]

:] hehe

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FISHKISS [2010-07-26 07:42:13 +0000 UTC]

This was wonderful to read <3 I completely agree with Pyran. Your writing is always so charged with meaning. What I like most, though, is how that contrast you make gives the first anecdote such a bittersweet taste.

In short: AWMG LOFF CHAOS MAHDEAR <3333

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gimpbeginner In reply to FISHKISS [2010-07-28 03:47:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I never quite know what to say, so I'll just thank you again...
OHOH. I finally (FINALLY) finished the RP. I just was proud of taht.

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FISHKISS In reply to gimpbeginner [2010-08-16 12:06:08 +0000 UTC]

Dude, I find it hard not to repeat myself whenever you write something new because everything you do is just so amazing xDDD It's like, you've got this... I have no idea, it just drips out of your fingers when you get it flowing.

I read it and loved it <333 MUST ANSWER SOON.

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aveggieofmanylayers [2010-07-25 00:00:18 +0000 UTC]

awwe... that is such a cute time! I can totally picture it too

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gimpbeginner In reply to aveggieofmanylayers [2010-07-25 00:21:43 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, they were great. They were donating the money to the community league for a new playground, which I found curiously ironic because by the time it gets built they will be too old, probably, to even remember having done it.

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aveggieofmanylayers In reply to gimpbeginner [2010-07-25 01:55:33 +0000 UTC]

wait, that makes it a million times more cool!

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gimpbeginner In reply to aveggieofmanylayers [2010-07-25 02:52:01 +0000 UTC]

i know, they were great.

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Pyran-XI [2010-07-24 06:45:26 +0000 UTC]

No, this is something beautiful that definitely caught my eye. Thought-provoking, powerful in that second-to-last paragraph, excellent word choice in the one before it, and a dark irony behind it all.

I wish it wasn't so late, my mind isn't working right to give this proper praise. But it really is beautiful.

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gimpbeginner In reply to Pyran-XI [2010-07-24 23:48:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! It was really nice to be able to write something again, I seem to have been stuck lately.

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