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Published: 2011-01-16 20:19:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 1011; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 11
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My school has a small magazine for art and poems and stuff. I was supposed to draw something in grayscale *facepalm* to go with a poem my language arts teacher wrote about the death of one of her students...I don't know if I'm technically supposed to put it online, but it's very good, so I guess I'm kind of featuring it.
Remember
There is a place where
Mexican rainbow dresses
swing against music
Breath sweat on
the unbroken
language of Gods
bronze colored
from picking sun from earth
to feed the sound of laughter
mixed with naked tears
in the same place
hunger hangs from mouths,
empty for a long time,
unheard
cactus flowers cough
stab thorns and white blossoms
awake wide armed
and full across the bending
side of an Arizona mountain
One Wednesday, as quiet as
it ever was
a baby was undone
the profound beauty of this place feels
hard like frozen meat and
ice-cream truck cold popsicles
Just one pop and his
eyes blacken and bleed and lose
everything they ever held
before they even saw,
anything
when sirens are too late
(always )
someone leaves
loud and quiet
No one hears it
become part of the ground
only white t-shirts
life size pictures
carwashes
r.i.p.s on backpacks written
with rose markers on jeans
and spray painted cars
remember
because there is nothing else to.
Just some background:
I wrote this poem after a student that I worked with was shot and killed in South Phoenix Arizona.
He was 12 years old. What do you say or do when something like that happens, when you know that no action, no word could possibly be enough?
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Comments: 33
Ok, I remember this one in the magazine.
-M
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oh. yeah, i remember that too :'D
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Didn't it go along to Ms. Raheem's poem?
-M
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The student will like it too. Maybe he'll send a sign...
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I highly doubt that, but thanks for the comment.
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Silence is the holiest mourning. But you've done a nice work in honor to him.
I think when life is shorter than short, all we who survived yet shall honor those who departed somehow. Even elephants honor dead elephants.
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I didn't find the video I wanted, but this show their mourning someway. Once I saw on TV a group of elephants surrounding an elephant who had justd died. They started lifting their snouts and making that sounds they do. They kept doing that for some time and then went away by sunset. It was something really beautiful.
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Thanks.
I agree with you... And that's really sad and beautiful about the elephants. People should stop treating them like they can't feel.
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I love that.
I don't know why, but I find cities in fishbowls held by people in hypnosis fascinating
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Thanks!
I wonder why C:
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I have no freackin idea...
I suppose I like the idea of creative things to do to cities/towns in general too
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I love his eyeball, and I love the snippets of the poem illustrated in the bubbles.
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Thank you! I'm glad those made sense
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It's beautiful... I especially like the eye.
I don't know how it'll look in greyscale though... Because we really can't print it in colour... Unless we put it on the first two pages on the inside but even then that might not work because of the amount of printing we have to do. Hm... Sorry. Babbling now.
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It will work fine in grayscale. Most of it is already gray anyway...
I'll show the color version to our language arts teacher at least, though.
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They were only twelve? thats so sad 
This picture is really pretty though
I think that the color makes it better, I've never been a fan of things that are completely grayscale.
I dont think I've ever seen you draw realistic eyes before, they look really amazing, and taking into account the beautiful poem They show amazing depth and emotion.
btw, that poem was really beautiful.
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I know... I think it was a while ago, but still it's really sad.
Thank you! The proportions are all messed up because I never draw like this :\ but whatever.
I agree. I'll tell my teacher you liked it. (:
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you seem to have a fetish for fish bowls
ahem. i would have phrased that differently, but then it wouldn't be an alliteration.
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I DON'T HAVE ANY FETISHES.
GO CRAWL UNDER A ROCK AND DIE.
.........But yes, I do like fishbowls.
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*gasps* you have your full signature!!! but the evil stalker murderers will use it to find out where you live, then do bad things to you!!!
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If you didn't know my name, you wouldn't be able to figure out three letters from that.
So there.
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I would be able to figure out exactly three letters, possibly four.
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That's just because you have ninja skills.
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The first letter is readable. The second to last letter is readable. The second capital letter is readable. The second letter is possibly readable.
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i was making fun of your aversion from using your whole name.
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The guy reminds me of that guy from holyland...
And damn... :\
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