"Ghosts are just dead people who were never real"- Sign outside of insurance agency on Maple Street
A "facebook friend" of mine posts poetry daily, many of which are wonderful displays of "emo poetry" to quote Amy Ellison. I thought I would mine his archives in search of these sort of cookie cutter lines in hopes of collecting some cliches to alter or play around with.
""you're always a step behind everything in my mind"
"I'm not a douche that makes these kinds of friends"
"I'm going to buy a portable chess set and just carry it around"--I kind of like this one as is.
" Looking in the mirror seeing a familiar person I've known beyond anyone elses understanding could ever touch my entire life, yet this figure is a shell coating a universe within, and I realize, I see me." --really like this, seems ripe with opportunity to play around with...
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