Date:         Sun, 5 Jan 1997 08:53:50 -0800
Subject:      Sub: Valentine's Contest : The Orange Juice Poem : Poetry

There's still time to send your entry! Check out
http://web.mit.edu/mbarker/www/val97/val.html for details.

Please reserve all critiques on contest entries until after Valentine's
Day!


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The Orange Juice Poem


Drinking in her love
PULP FREE
carefully strained of innocence and purity
by the skilled trained hands that once held her...
BROKEN
   into a billion pieces...
but more together now that the jeweled sword
       is no longer caressing her naked back.
Angry and Tired
  and in a manic fit of depression
    wanting to run away
away from hands held behind her back...
   away from hands that HOLD HER BACK...
But frozen in place...
frozen and numb.
       NUMB...
because she bared her heart for you
and bared her body
and bared her soul...
     NUMB...
because she stood naked before a cold heart...
in a cold world...
where everything turns to ice
except for the concrete shadows
of everything she longs to forget...


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