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Post-it Notes.

October 31, 2007 4 Comments

Black as night and cold as daylight after an acid trip. This is what it felt like walking down the street after a hard night drinking. I was thinking about my cubicle, post-it-notes, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and my broken stapler – when it hit me. A car, not a life changing epiphany or sudden moment of lucid awareness that my life meant nothing. No, the opportunity to kill myself once I realized that, was suddenly taken from me when a car hit me in the dead of night. Now I can’t even lift a knife to slit my throat.

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  1. barbiecore says

    November 8, 2007 at 10:51 pm

    this is good.

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  2. Spiderman says

    March 8, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    this is amazing, it sent a wave of pity through my spine

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  3. davidbdale says

    July 15, 2010 at 7:45 pm

    Once I realized what?

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  4. the good doctor says

    December 23, 2010 at 5:17 am

    stop toying with my expectations like that!

    Reply

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