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Beau's Regards A relic to remember Poetry by seomins

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Beau's Regards
A relic to remember

Poetry by seomins

━━━ ❃ ━━━

Write minus wrong

One of the neon highlights of my childhood was reading
The Blob That Ate Everyone, a Goosebumps installment I'd call
Another unhinged offspring of R.L. Stine's brain cells.
(Mind you that after this one came a good 30 more. Crazy.)
12-year-old Zach births a flesh-consuming monster from
A supernatural typewriter he had used to write its story.
My book was crippling, on its knees, begging the question,
When everything you write comes true, how much of it
Would you leave to call a superpower, and the rest a burden?
With a typewriter like Zach's, I would live without worries.
With a typewriter like Zach's, I could compose rags to riches.
With a typewriter like Zach's, hell, I might as well be God.
But at the cost of what, a realm of blacks, blues, blurs?
One, a blind front, another, a bruise, and the last, a blessing?
What microcosms can my words hide, raw fear and raw fright
In sheer disgust by the lines that bound what's real in our eyes?
To write a monster is one thing, to write it a story another
But to give it a heart, a mind, and soul more vivid than yours
Is to put that thing to sleep before your eyes could even close.

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By Andrea GP.

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