love at first read


Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
     
                                                           G.K. Chesterton




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Mark Luimes said…
You would love Umi Cafe Open Mics... best poetry I've heard in my whole life, written in the middle of the night through pot smoke...
December 19, 2012 at 1:05 PM
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