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Logic

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Over & Done Searching for the light of day some say it doesn't exist find the sun now before it burns out some say that's not the case. What a waste of time down the wrong road  with the fastest cars having to run back with all that you have well, time is up. Too late. Do you know that it's over? They're closing the doors I told you before. Do you know why it's over? Why does the world have to end? Because we pretend that we don't know that it's over. It's over and done.

Run

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Where did you go? I was walking far before the clock told me I was late before the morning was my enemy and the light broke my breakfast plate. Where did you go? I was waiting, slowly the doorway closed, shut. The window was locked by the dogs outside, who heard the gunshots? Where did you go? I'm jealous of nobody  except the tiger's bite, the ink in my hands and the sword at my feet tell my enemies they have to fight. Where did you go? I'm uncertain that  I'll finally get my prey but as long as I'm tall and as fast, I can run and mother's on her knees to pray. Where did you go? Where did I go running  from a person I call myself? Confused, disoriented by a mist of indifference like burned books on a shattered shelf. 

Logic

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Broken 'You've got to fix it, you have to fix it', I said to myself. It can't stay broken for too long broken pieces -like sand- on the floor broken TVs are broken. Did you see it? It was cloudy as the days we pray for. Plain and intricate, it makes my eyes turn, my head spin. The  buzzing sound of pressure and heat and quiet darkness, then it goes off. Did you see, hear that? What it said? It reminds you of those days, they remind me they aren't mine, crushing every medium of the static faith in time. Is it a crime to be  a broken TV? 'You have to fix it', I said 'lest the cloudiness leaves me dead'. I'm tired of talking to myself alone, to the voices in my head it's smashed in that sound is maddening it doesn't work like it should. Red, green and black were the colours of my pen and those crystal dots floating around in the air that TV screen was blank ...

Book Review

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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952,  127 pages The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway’s most credible works as an author but it was his last before his death in 1961. The book’s main characters are Santiago, Manolin and the marlin. It’s about an ageing fisherman, Santiago, who goes 84 days without getting any fish. He is mocked and laughed at by the other fishermen because he is considered the worst kind of unlucky ( salao ). Santiago has a relationship with a young boy, Manolin, who had been fishing with him since the boy was five. He moves on to a more profitable boat when Santiago’s luck dries out. He wishes to fish with him on the 85 th day but Santiago disagrees since Manolin is on a ‘lucky’ boat and his parents wouldn’t approve. Santiago goes out to sea alone so he can prove himself to Manolin and the fishers. He catches a large 18foot marlin which drags his boat into the middle of the sea. By the time he kills it, it...