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8 A Waterways ProjectI! Publication

Richard SpiegelBarbara FishercodirectorsThomas Perry

administrative assistantMargaret Friscia

TeacherTildy Rodriguez & Anthony Spinelli

ParaprofessionalsCatherine D'Amato, Director

St. George SchoolMargaret Bing- \Y J ade, PrincipalAuxiliary Services for High Schools

Stephen E o Phillips, Superintendent,Alternative High Schools & Programs

I997 Ten Penny Playerswith funding support fromthe NY State Council on the Arts

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TIME WILL STOPThe easiest thing to find,This rotting disease in my mind.Boredom plagues our heads.Still waiting for the time to leave.Time is something to grieve.In a world that's about to blow,Where would you hide?"Where would you go?

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KILL THIS (AGAIN)The blood runs down my arm,and spills to the floor.You can not heal me anymore.I hear your crying,Right above me like an angel.You came and held me,But I've already slipped away.Last night I said I loved you,But you had nothing to say.Can not kill this pain.Mine now belongs to you.My agony is over.My blood is all over you.

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AT THE EDGE OF THE SEAThe wind wraps me like a coat.There's aweird feeling in my throat.All too familiar.The more time passes,The more Iforget.My arms wrapped around you.I still remember the sweat we shared.I am the thought in your head,That rots your mind.In our awakening,What did we find?Your nails left scars on my back.Excitement, something we never lacked.Itcorrupted our souls,We thought it was love.It ruined us both.It left me cold and alone.

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RESIDING IN YOUI want your mind to erase my fear.Life is unkind, so I keep my heart near.I'll take my chances with you.l'm falling in love with you.The others put me through so much pain.I only wish you knew,But I trunk you already do.I'll offer my heart to you.But only if your heart is true,Then I'll give you all of mine.The tears I've shed.You've healed scars in my heartAnd in my head.

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ROOM4UIn my heart.In my head.There is only you.I've kicked everything out.So I've made room for you.Only you.

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DEMENTED RAG DOLLSIN AISLE FOUR

Bite me!Drag me along for the ride.Rape me!It's okay, I have no more pride.We'll kill each other.We'll beat each other till we're both dead.We're two dolls that are both sick in the head.I borrowed this baseball bat from aisle eleven.Her head is now in aisle seven.See our body parts scattered across the marble floor.It's nothing to worry about,I t's just our way of having fun.Her favorite department carries knives and guns.She'll blow me to pieces or slice me to shreds.After she's done she'll sew me back together again.Ir's just her funny way of telling me that that's whatI get for playing baseball with her head.

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DARKCHILDHidden from the world.Don't be ashamed.You walk in the dark.You shut out the light.Even your self grips you tight.Take a walk out into the night.Dontt worry, everything's gonna be all right.Crystal moon and dark rain,Erase the pain.Walking in the dark,Hiding her failures.She lost her heart.She's covered in tears.Shivering from her fears.

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THE FROST BITTEN YEARSTime has frozen, in a place I hate.But I have already learned to love it.Think deep, go far back into your mind.There's a place everybody will find.Everyone.My place is dark, so dark.Ifyou tried to find me you'd mistake meFor one of the shadows that walk around here.My self pity has taken its toll.I await for the black carpet to unroll.The chaos cannot be controlled.My soaking wet hair hangs inmy face.The misery in my eyes that no one can replace.My aching memories cannot be erased.Confusion comes in whirls ..I'm getting dizzy.I'm sick to my thorn torn heart.My arms and legs outstretched,I'm being pulled apart.When will the pain end?The years flew by.Where did everyone go?Now I'm dead and still alone.

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LASTIs there something left to do,In this world that's killing you.Nothing left in your bleeding heart,Time for you has fallen apart.Praying on your broken knees,Life isyour disease.Guard your lives' undying lies,looking upon the darkening skies,See the things that should not be.Will your soul ever be free?Things to do until you die.

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DOWN THE DRAINLife is dripping down further with every inch.You miss more with every flinch.What did you expect in life?You don't get everything that you put in.Yours has amounted to one big sin.We live in s m . .I'm alive.Evil am 1.Forever we fall down the demented rustedpipes.Destined to hit rock bottom,To our watery graves.Further down you will collapse.And I will laugh.

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MY ONLY DESTINATIONThese days of pain will never be the same.You've changed all that, changed my mind.Ihrew my book away out in the rain.it's time to start all oyer again.By now you should know how I feel inside.But do you really give a damn,

or was it all a lie.Now Iook to the days ahead.I'll hate you till the day you're dead.My final destination.I cannot tell the time.No maps on the road side.This my own to decide.Now I look to the road ahead.

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