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+The New Bohemians+

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We are the outcasts. The freaks. The perverts. The ones mothers use to scare their children into behaving.
We are... The Children of The Revolution. We are the NEW Bohemians.

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We gather in our homes, our parks, our clubs. We sit in darkened coffee shops - little, out of the way courtyards filled with white lawn furniture and strung with tiny white lights - sipping from mismatched mugs, waxing poetic and debating philosophy.

We nibble on candies, "True Love" cookies, sugar cubes, each other. We doodle on throw-away fliers for bands we'll never see on MTV and click pens at each other. We admire piercings, jewelry, and painted bodies. We move in a cloud of incense and "medicinal" smoke that may or may not be illegal. We braid our hair with flowers, ribbons, and rainbows of extensions. We are women with dapper-cut hair, men in delicate makeup.

We are male. We are female. We are neither. We are both.

We are heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, asexual. We are lovers of great beauty and great sadness. We are the beautiful in all sizes, shapes, and colors, for it is everywhere. We are softly drugged whispers and crazed, chartreuse screams.

We are smokers and nonsmokers. Tokers and nontokers. Body abusers and conscientious objectors. We are the healthy and the weak. The sick and the dead.

We are geeks. Artists. Writers. Musicians and dreamers. We are dominant, we are submissive, we are everything inbetween.


We live in the past, we ache for the future.

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Our lives will fade from history

without

so much

as a sound.

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We have names you know.

Freddy Mercury.

David Bowie.

Sylvia Plath.

Anais Nin.

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We are nameless to you.

Dire.

Dreamy.

Angel.

John.

Hippykisses.

KC.

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We are... ageless. Born different. We are young teens who feel the world cannot go on as it has been. Grown creatures still searching for where we belong. Elderly and dancing on our porches to a song only our hearts can hear.

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We are searching.



Will you join us?





-Lost Soul 12-18-03
Something I wrote a while back.

...and yes, it's fully copyright protected. Please respect me and ask before re-publishing.


Cover image via who posted stock of the actual True Love Cafe's sign
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BohoBelle's avatar
Gorgeous piece. So poetic and true. Loved it and faved it :)