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« on: February 22, 2008, 10:25:55 AM »
1:21 Am.
Billie Holiday.
A scotch in hand.
A dim light in the far corner of the room.
Arms and legs outstretched.
On the back.
Head up in the ceiling.
Billie Holiday.
A scotch in hand.
A dim light in the far corner of the room.

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Re: 44
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2008, 10:42:04 AM »
I like it stealth. What made you write it?

Pretty tragic ending and life she led - died pretty young too - I like the title ;)
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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2008, 04:46:23 AM »
It was Friday night, end of a long week.  Basically it's just a description of what I was doing and where I was - lying down, drinking Johnnie Red and listening to Billie playing softly on the stereo.  I didn't so much write it as it just came out of my mouth while lying down in the early hours of the morning, so I jumped up and wrote it down here so I wouldn't forget it.

And yeah, the title's in reference to the age she was when she died :)

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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2008, 10:55:36 AM »
I read it differently: I thought it was her after a night in some gloomy bar after a performance - getting drunk.
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2008, 03:53:39 PM »
I read it differently: I thought it was her after a night in some gloomy bar after a performance - getting drunk.

Hmmm..I never thought of it like that, but like I said, that's a first draft, pretty much an instantaneous thing that came out.  Your interpretation sounds better to me than my explanation of its genesis.

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Re: 44
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2008, 01:35:45 PM »
I will never understand the interest behind writings like this... and I think that's ok.