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Monday, August 15, 2011

Magpie # 78

Photo by Tess Kincaid


Boys room,
Wall paper
Hangs
Brittle, tattered
Forlorn.
underneath;
pellets,
Shotgun blast?

11 comments:

  1. interesting what you find when you take the wall paper down eh? nice...and a little scary...

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  2. Rel, this is deep and full of meaning. I enjoyed it!

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  3. Very good take on the prompt.

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  4. Sometimes we have to get through the layers, so when we put up a fresh coat it will wear properly...

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  5. Terrific - wallpaper can hide a lifetime or more. Intriguing piece, for sure!

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  6. That's a bloke's room alright!!

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  7. Maybe he was using a shotgun to help strip the old wallpaper?

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  8. Oh yeah, I've found some mean things under wall papers in my cousin's room!lol!

    Nicely done Magpie,I relly liked it!:)

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  9. Wow. So stark and so intense. nicely done.

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  10. When we finally cleaned out the boys' room, after they left home, we pulled up the carpet and underneath were dozens of little yellow gun pellets.

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  11. Intensity in every word!

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