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Tonight's Poet Corner: There Was A Time

There Was A Time by Belinda Roddie There was a time one night right around midnight when the air was a skin-tight fabric on my shoulders, I felt so much older than I should have felt, and my teeth were made of velcro and stuck together, so who the Hell knows whether my prose means anything to anyone on this bit of land we call home. And I thought, Hey, some things you can pray for, prove, or deduce, but what comes loose is when we try to fathom the core. And I adore attempts, but the depths of the oceanic cosmos won't be tapped in my time. So this time, I'll keep my pretty thoughts in a box safe for keeping.

Today's OneWord: Dense

"What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the Hell do you think I am? I'm the goddamn Bat - " "Shawn." "Sorry, sorry." Shawn turned back to his X-Box 360 while Leslie focused on the computer screen in front of her. The garish Batman picture hovered on her desktop, and she rabidly typed a name into the search engine. "Ricky Ferraro. Now there's a good artist."