Formatting here does allow me to incorporate all the literary devices used. Sorry. http://sharepoint.lrsd.ab.ca/hockleyc/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx and selecting Black V5 will give you an MS Word version that has the correct formatting. Thanks.
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an ominous inescapable black surrounds me dwarfing everything that was fear grips me but I dont see fear in everyone the townspeople what are they thinking and my family and those I used to count as friends what are they thinking or feeling I yearn for compassion for understanding maybe sympathy do they harbour views that preclude compassion and black black bears down pressing crushing me and then a small reprieve some do respond in love my brother comes to visit some others of my family and friends come if they can I do live quite far away and others write and others pray and others family and townspeople appear judgmentally cold this isolation overwhelms me my frustration and anger grow weed like in what I call a season out of season black brings an illegitimate early winter into my summer I have this perception that complication breeds in these black b*stardized times my life feels complicated I dont know how to talk to those who reject me and I isolate myself too I suppose quilting comes to mind now I wonder how Ill be remembered or if Ill be remembered will someone add a section in the quilt for me I know of those who have already seen black and traversed winter I pray for a miracle to postpone this black that laughs so sinister I cry I am so frightened so scared terrified my tears stream down my face I feel so lost and so alone a time may come when mankind can ensure seasonal weather for summer in summer and winter in winter but not for me not today
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hockley
