Oh, Narcissus! My heart beats ink for you.A pulse in every line.It's your eyesmy words want to be read by,your kind of mindthey would be understood by,your heartthey'd be felt by,and then you'd feel the same way that I do,if only these words could be read or heard by you.

~ Steven L. Sheppard

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He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must cut him loose from.

~ Steven L. Sheppard

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You really are exotic, for boys in my country, they do not have such pectorals. I like yours.

~ Steven L. Sheppard

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I think I know what he is REALLY doing in there... and thinking about ME while doing it. (continuing) But when he thinks of me, he thinks: sister! Think: Byblis! BYBLIS! I don't think of him as my brother, I think of him as CAUNUS!

~ Steven L. Sheppard

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