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Come To Bed With Me – A Poem
come to bed with meturn off the lightstrip the shirtfrom your back don’t fusswith the sheetsi always leave themin a tangled mess fluff the pillowsand get comfortable let me kissyour forehead let my bodywarm your body let my heartbeat sync with yours let my breathshare your air —Theo Sterling, 2025
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So I Just Turned 26 and I Have Thoughts
Today is my 26th birthday! While in the grand scheme of things, it’s just another year around the sun, I can attest that there is some significance to this milestone— at least for me, there is. As I reflect on the past few years of my life, I realize that I’ve come a long way…
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The Future is Forever Unknown: a Poem
Twilight strikes and the world ignites, born into a family of complexity the future is forever unknown. Shaky steps and muttered words I marched headlong into destiny, or complete confusion. Six years boxed within four walls I grew, I learned, I existed, and experienced the short river of childhood where the waves were rough, the…
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Fried Green Tomatoes and the Nature of Love
Question: What does the novel Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg suggest about the nature of love? Throughout the book “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe,” any reader can observe the constantly developing versions of love between both major and minor characters. This is apparent in the exclusively intense “friendship” shared between Ruth Jamison…
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The Night and Love: a Poem
Oh how sweet and foul love is, in one moment; happiness in the next; awful sadness. But I will never give up the love we share for each other. You are the only reason the stars in my night sky shine, and the moon pokes its face out. You are also the cause of my…
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