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A Charm City Sonnet by ~SirNaelyan:iconSirNaelyan:



Hairspray
any other John Waters Movie
300 murders
HIV
black janitor, white teacher
boys machete-carved into muggers, age 13
crime scene: a corpse, a gunned street chase
one block away. And your roommate, raped.

You know it's true what they say about this place,
but you live under this night-orange sky,
and walk the streets after the birds have stopped chirping.
The city breathes like a sleeping teen, you love it then,
and when summer hymns are sung to passers-by,
and when barking dogwoods remind you to live for beauty.
©2009 ~SirNaelyan
:iconsirnaelyan:

Author's Comments

I wanted to write about the city I'm going to school in...so I thought about the memories I had from the last two years.

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:iconzaelya:
o_O that's... slightly disturbing...

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athaeras
:iconzaelya:
pretty sounding but disturbing.

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athaeras
:iconsirnaelyan:
It's the truth though. That's kinda what Baltimore is like-- every one of those things has been experienced by me or someone close to me.

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--SirNaelyan
:iconzaelya:
i know...
doesn't change my statement.

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athaeras

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