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Hubert H. Humphrey

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HUBERT MARTIN
I was the wings that kept her aloft, while the churning sea of reality nipped at her feet. I kept he...
HUBERT MARTIN
She was exactly right and wrong in the perfect sort of way. This kiss would be the first of many, sh...
HUBERT MARTIN
An intricate string made up of infinite knots and curls. Taking a step back, it really did seem so f...
HUBERT MARTIN
It only took a corny joke, but the smile I saw shone brighter than a glare, more profound than a sta...
HUBERT MARTIN
And they danced with laughter and tears. They swung each other round and round, the first and last t...
HUBERT MARTIN
Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks...
HUBERT MARTIN
Inside, my soul is curled tightly bearing the burden of massive sins from another life. And my eyes ...
HUBERT MARTIN
Every decision, every single one, comes with a price to pay. It means you chose one thing over anoth...
HUBERT MARTIN
The brittle seeds remained inside my soul, my tears the water that begged them to grow. And though I...
HUBERT MARTIN
It was a burden on all her muscles. A hollow deeper than her bones. She braced herself though, she k...
HUBERT MARTIN
I held my breath tightly against the shivers coursing through my body. Darkness ate away the edges o...
HUBERT MARTIN
His eyes are covered by impermeable marble, a solidity that can never be breached. You think there i...
HUBERT MARTIN
We are the living whole of the fragments from the things we've experienced and people we've encounte...
HUBERT MARTIN
My scars show you I've been strong enough to endure the trauma of the world. My heart has no scars, ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I wear my past around my shoulders as a fine, but worn, cloak. Don't be fooled by my cloak's appeara...
HUBERT MARTIN
And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I li...
HUBERT MARTIN
The storm only grew stronger. Walls of facets became flooded with cracks, the tumultuous gale escape...
HUBERT MARTIN
It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn't even feel like love until I ...
HUBERT MARTIN
They surrounded me, bare me. Their fingers like tentacles and their desires like knives. Their finge...
HUBERT MARTIN
On these days, I've never felt so hollow. Recollecting the many pieces of me that were lost in past ...
HUBERT MARTIN
Adventures kept hidden, words kept silent. You became my greatest secret. And when you left, no one ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidde...
HUBERT MARTIN
I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on...
HUBERT MARTIN
All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
HUBERT MARTIN
It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
HUBERT MARTIN
You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
HUBERT MARTIN
I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
HUBERT MARTIN
My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
HUBERT MARTIN
She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
HUBERT MARTIN
And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
HUBERT MARTIN
I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
HUBERT MARTIN
He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
HUBERT MARTIN
Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
HUBERT MARTIN
She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
HUBERT MARTIN
When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
HUBERT MARTIN
Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
HUBERT MARTIN
My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
HUBERT MARTIN
Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
HUBERT MARTIN
She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
HUBERT MARTIN
She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
HUBERT MARTIN
That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
HUBERT MARTIN
She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
HUBERT MARTIN
He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN
These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
HUBERT MARTIN
In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
HUBERT MARTIN
She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
HUBERT MARTIN
As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
HUBERT MARTIN
That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN
I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
HUBERT MARTIN