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Miss Lightning

When the clouds roll in
and the wind picks up,
a summer storm’s on it’s way
baiting, waiting, to erupt.

Miss Lightning blows through
like a charged breeze,
billowing in every direction
smashing and crashing in the trees.

She’s got a red nebula mouth
and constellations across her face
with eyes that flash like thunderbolts
careening, screaming into outer space.

Miss Lightning,
you’re beautiful and frightening,
won’t you strike me with your gaze
before you depart across the landscape?

Miss Lightning, 
you’re more intriguing than any maze, 
won’t you strike me with your gaze?
 

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It’s a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you’re good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Not law-type honest—I’d rob a grave, I’d steal two-bits off a dead man’s eyes if I thought it would contribute to a day’s enjoyment—but unto-thyself-type honest. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I’d rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

Holly Golightly

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

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