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Important Update: Transition from pathetic.org to eMuse.org - 03/16/2025
by Gavin M Roy

After years of intermittent development, eMuse is almost ready to launch. As part of this transition, pathetic.org will be shutdown and will redirect to eMuse.org.
What you need to know:

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* When creating your new eMuse account, you'll have the option to import your data from pathetic.org

We look forward to welcoming you to the new platform.

Hello, Survivors of 2020! - 01/03/2021
by V. Blake

Please check my post out in the General forum when you have a moment. Thanks!

Stay Healthy - 03/18/2020
by V. Blake

Hope you and yours are well.

A Congratulations to Leonard M Hawkes - 03/27/2019
by V. Blake

..who just published his first volume of poetry! Entitled Leaves from my Box Elder, it comes just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike.

So, like the title says--congrats, Leonard!

Older News
Poem of the Day for 03/28/26

She Was Just A Little Girl
by Lori I Wolfe

She was born in a city
of wall to wall people
a place so full of life
flowing ever bigger

Her eyes so blue
and skin so fare
when she smiled
she sparkled every where

She grew up on the far side of the tracks
in her mommy and daddy's eyes
she could do no wrong
as she'd tell them more lies

She's just a little girl
fallen to the side
Dying ...
as everyone walks on by

She was a wild one
into the city night
running in a the crowded streets
burning fast out of sight

She cries inside
wanting more then what she's got
pushing into another world
out of a land she long forgot

she's just a little girl
fallen to the side
Dying ...
as everyone walks on by

She loved a love
that didn't exist
only in fairytails
a land of myth

He left her bleeding
naked on the inside
raping the girl from long ago
leaving her in a city with no place to hide

She's just alittle girl
fallen to the side
Dying ...
as everyone walks on by

The grave yard was empty and cold
gray clouds twisted up above
as they lowered her into the earth
with only two hearts to witness shattered love

She was just a little girl
fallen to the side
Dying ...
as everyone just walked on by

01/26/2002

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