Dear Alice



The ocean looks so mad
Frail faces on wings of the channel
I smell your pungent fertility
This disease, I do not deserve
My flesh is so wasteful
And i hear winter in the palm of my hand
While the tides calm down the day
The night turns gray
Leaving me in this body to decay
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 265
Words 56
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

Tim Pagan

Tim Pagan (1994-Present) American musician and poet born in Lompoc, CA on July 26th 1994. With classics such as "I'll Think Of You Tonight" and "By the Way, By the Bay", the future looks bright for this poetic genius. http://www.myspace.com/timpaganofficial http://timpagan.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/timpagan more…

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