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Dying is an Art - IV.

IV.
(Canada is for...)

Of

all

of

the

places

I've

been,
I admit that:

(I loved you the most.)

You were cold,
and you never returned my
calls, but you were
the most beautiful
of all.

O Canada,
Our home and native land.

You could have been mine.
Why did things have to go
wrong? A note and a
van full of everything and
an empty heart.

True patriot love in all thy sons command.

Did I wave to you? Did I collect
the last of what you were?
You are a stain on my heart,
the only (but what if?) that
matters.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free.

I want to be like you.

Dying is an Art - III.

III.
(Moving)

There was a lot of moving.
More than I can recite or
pretend away.

The first place I really knew
that I loved was small
and broken. I didn't know
it then, though, so I was
just happy.

Sarah was my second, my
partner in crime and
the riot that moved me.
I haven't seen her since then,
but I will always remember
the first girl I called
Friend, best friend
and meant it.

The boy from the other apartment
who completed the trio with
my sister and I.
Playing imaginary games, keeping
Pokémon alive and building with
Legos and making forts in
the snow for dragon eggs
(or something else). I later
f

Dying is an Art - II.

II.
(Father)

Taking steps,
I gained my legs and you
lost yours.

I remember.
I remember before
you stopped trying.

The bikes that we rode,
the cigarettes you smoked,
(why didn't you stop?)
the fishing and the ice cream,
the fake dollars with
Bugs Bunny smiling up at me.

I remember before
you stopped trying.

And then it ended,
and you slept
and slept
and slept
and never seemed to wake.

And then it was over,
but you couldn't let go,
wouldn't let go. Your
fingernails dug in
but we couldn't go back
because it changed and
you changed. You became
nothing.

Don't blame the enemy,
don't blame the enemy,
don't blame the en

Dying is an Art - I.

I.
(Delivery)

open eyes.

cold and coughing.
shaking,
shaking,
sh-sh-sh-Sha--

i don't think i can.
i don't think.

but you are there,
and i can't remember,
and you do,
you always will,
and that's all that matters.

i was incomplete,
a fraction of a fire,
a squirming spark.

i wonder if you cried
and how much
and if you tried to
hide it.

you were there to
explain to me
what life is and

who i am.

who i am.

who am i?

NioWe never said,
"'Till death do us part."
It seemed silly to us young
lovers. "If we," she said,
"truly love one another,
we will ascend together."

It was a promise, a blissful
belief that our bond was
strong enough to take us
both down at once.

I found my rest in 1977. I waited
at the Gates for her, ushered
in but telling them,
"Just give her a minute.
She'll be here soon." And
soon they began to extinguish
the lobby lights and they
gave last calls. I hung my
head and stumbled in onto the
golden roads, alone, and forgot
about her for fourteen years.

And by then, she had forgotten
me, too.

AttaNo clovers nor flowers nor grasses grow on my grave.
I've heard that it's bad luck. And how fitting;
I've had only bad luck my whole life. My
parents died at the knife of a stranger. My
sister raised me for four years before tying a
noose above her bed in our shared room.
My aunt, who took me in, drank away the sound of
the belt of her husband. I took after him when
I grew up, becoming a tax collector, hated by all.

I never loved and always lost. And now there are
no clovers nor flowers nor grasses on my grave.
It's bad luck, they say.

Pah, bad luck -- I'm already dead anyways.

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When I visited Lita this weekend it was no surprise that she wanted to take pictures. She got all dressed up in her costume and I got to photograph her. It was pretty much awesome.

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*Spectural-Beanie Oct 7, 2010

i have to say ...AWWWWSOME hahah like a fairy tail C:

~neoshayna888 Oct 7, 2010

Haha, yes, I was very pleased with the results of this shoot!! It definitely had a fairy-tale feel to it. :3

*Spectural-Beanie Oct 7, 2010

hahaha you should get a wolf persona goin C:
i had an idea for a movie series of fairytales C:

~neoshayna888 Oct 8, 2010

Haha, that's a good idea! For some reason, I think my sister's boyfriend has a wolf mask...I should ask her about it and see.

That would be awesome! Care to tell me more about it?

*Spectural-Beanie Oct 8, 2010

hahahah wow uh^^ i gotta say its kinda a long story hahah XP dont know if ya gona have the patience XP

~neoshayna888 Oct 8, 2010

I have all the patience in the world for stories!! Unless, of course, you don't want to tell it. I'm always up for listening!

*Spectural-Beanie Oct 8, 2010

hahahah tell ya what ^^ ill put it up as a deviation ^^ youll see it...in the mean time ..i have two chaps of another one of mine up if ya want to start wit them C: red rdin hood girl C:

~neoshayna888 Oct 9, 2010

Sounds good! I'll read them ASAP!

~Dethroner Jun 26, 2010

great composition. Love the house

~neoshayna888 Jun 26, 2010

Thank you!

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