I Feel Pink Today
You won't notice me, unless my laughter kicks the back of your seat in a movie theater, or I'm holding up the check out line while I dig for some loose change in a pack rat purse. You won't see me, I'm delayed inside my footprints; I'm living an alternate ending to my life. I'm the color red. No, blue. Maybe green or yellow. Honestly, I can't ever decide. But I'm a gentle touch and a calming voice, I'm lamplight dancing on water, and I'll warn you now, I'm the steak that comes rare when you order medium-well.
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I was pieced together with five parts compassion, three parts empathy, three parts hard work, and two parts self-preservation; but then they decided that thirteen parts was bad luck and cut my regard for preservation down to one. It is...
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