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A FREE MOVIE PASS

NEW LIFE

Getting there is the easy way—

Shake off your sadness

standing, standing

and recover your spirituality.

waiting, waiting You’ve been in this rut of pain long enough.

till the time comes for me to get a free movie pass.

It’s time to brush off your heels and start the work that is very much needed.

Hurry, hurry— first come, first serve.

For death only comes to the one who gives up!

Don’t get there late or you will have to wait.

But life comes to the ones who spread themselves like seeds in a field, where they can nourish and grow.

It’s funny, you know, looking forward at the person in front of me…

Clyde C.

Oh no! He just let someone cut in line! Keep calm. Don’t fuss over it.

GUILT, DESIRE, AND LOVE

Because it is a free movie pass. Oh no! Another one cut in line! I yelled, “In the back, buddy!” He yelled back, “Kiss my ass!” “Oh no he didn’t,” I responded.

Sometimes it’s hard to understand certain feelings that one has in life. I mean, it’s hard to grasp why someone sometimes feels

We exchanged words toward each other

the same feelings for people of the opposite sex.

until it was too late…

If you are a man, people say that you should love women.

before we knew it, no more tickets.

And if you are a woman, people say that you should love men.

I was pissed, but I can’t be because it was, in fact, a free movie pass.

MOVIES

If you listen to what other people say Popcorn sound

Dawn McKnight

But what if that’s not the case?

big screen

free tickets of the movie I get away happy

and live according to their feelings and not your own,

the darkness

you will surely get wrapped up in their crazy world

comfy chairs

quietness

feel the effects

feels like I’m inside

the fact that

forget all your problems

I like the coming attractions

Dawn McKnight

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of guilt, desire, and love.

makes me

So I say, live life according to your own feelings. Live life free from other people’s ideas about guilt, desire, and love.

Clyde C.

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