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[title] => Forgotten Scarecrow
[time] => 2011-11-15 04:11:18
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[bodytext] => Forgotten Scarecrow Do I scare you? Do you fear me? I am harmless really. Don't judge this book by it's tattered cover. It looks well used I know. My pages are stiff and yellowed, a picture of an old treasure map, left by a daring but dying buccaneer to direct you to your unknown fortune. My stem is cracked and worn the threads hang loosely, they have given up the work they were intended for long ago. The threads of my stem give up their work so easily, like so many weak characters, seeking escape from the rigors of responsibility to the devotions of successful pioneers. I am frayed like the scarecrow. I've been sewn like the fields. My work has a singular purpose. The wings of the magpie will never brush my face. I've been betrayed by my constitution but my message has not been abandoned, like the hopes of the ignorants, who've been sold down the river. The river feeds the waving crops, they blow in the soft wind and caress my soul, my cheek like Juliet did a fallen Romeo. Dead on the outside, inside a spirit of devout purpose, but wearing the macabre face of a loyal and forgotten scarecrow. [comments] => 0 [counter] => 88 [topic] => 8 [informant] => Cole_Crowe [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => AmericanTragedy )
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