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Old 04-12-2008, 08:31 AM   #4
Trilby
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Gee, Lj, thanks--but I can't begin to compete with some of these people!


Or, is this like some sort of joke like when they voted Carrie for Homecoming Queen and then poured pig's blood all over her? Coz if it is this sort of sick joke, I'm totally in. What should I wear?


For class I wrote another silly poem. It was supposed to be a "list of things you like" a la Gerard Manley Hopkins. It's my "oh, a 2nd grader wrote this!!" poem, but the class (filled with those not too far removed from 2nd grade) liked it.

I like the dark things, Halloween things,
Gleeful grins and voodoo queens;
Tarot decks and green moonbeams.

I like the pansy, fearful face and back,
Growling up at me from the bushpack
Poison mushroom cap, magic brick-a-brack.

I like the room beneath the Tree,
Cauldrons and witches, three by three
I like the unseen, silly world
That just might bite a careless girl.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.

"Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her.
—James Barrie


Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum
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