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What Comes Next... [Wattys 2014]

Poetry

Violet has never stopped running. She lives for the wind on her face, and seeing the blur of cars as they drive by. And she has real problems to run from. An alcoholic mother, an abusive ex-boyfriend, and the lowest grades in school. It's time for V...

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Alaska

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by InspiredSilence

by InspiredSilence

smokes to die.

I run to live.

Yet we're both crazy.

Running away in books

is almost as great

as the real thing.

Except neither ever got me anywhere.

Neither will driving

without a sweet meal

of gasoline.

I pull into a truck stop.

And suddenly,

so many eyes

are scouring me,

undressing me,

feeling me up.

So I 'accidentally' slip down

a shoulder strap.

Hell, maybe I won't have to drive.

Someone can do it for me.