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Broken glass landscape, shadows of humanity waiting to line pockets with pilfered treasures. Five-four, blonde, hidden in the voluminous folds of a hoodie, disenchanted with her derelict reality. Superhero dreams in form-fitting spandex, accentuating natural curves to perfection. Nemesis of filth and corruption, abbreviated to P.I.G. the ass kissers of the hazy underworld lords. Innocence lost in the uniformity of apathy. Visions of lighting the world in truth and love, paints a rare smile on her downcast face. In a blinding flash let the landscape clear itself of syringes and sadness, dissolve the prison bars of safety, spray paint the walls with street art, a laboured love. Closed eyes bring euphoric imaginings of a new world that shatters with the sound of sirens as she wanders through a broken glass landscape, with dreams of saving her world from itself, if only humans could be superhero’s.
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(04-30-2012, 02:16 PM)Indie Wrote: Broken glass landscape, shadows of humanity waiting to line pockets with pilfered treasures. Five-four, blonde, hidden in the voluminous folds of a hoodie, disenchanted with her derelict reality. Superhero dreams in form-fitting spandex, accentuating natural curves to perfection. Nemesis of filthy [would filth work better?]and corruption, abbreviated to P.I.G. the ass kissers of the hazy underworld lords. Innocence lost in the uniformity of apathy. Visions of lighting the world in truth and love, paints a rare smile on her downcast face. In a blinding flash let the landscape clear itself of syringes and sadness, dissolve the prison bars of safety, spray paint the walls with street art, a laboured love. Closed eyes bring euphoric imaginings of a new world that shatter with the sound of sirens as she wanders through a broken glass landscape, with dreams of saving her world from itself, if only humans could be superhero’s. nice little vignette Indie. the hoodie dates it to modern and also gives it a feel of boredom, it's my favourite line. i love the P.I.G it connects to this place, though what does it stand for?  the natural curves line has to be a prerequisite to any super hero thing. stan lee would love it. it has a black widow feel.
no nits really, i'm not able to, all i can say is; i found it to be something i'd like to see expandexed on
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Thanks for picking up that error billy. P.I.G refers to the police, I think the expression came about back in the day when they were called Police In Guard... or something like that, I am not 100% sure on the exact phrase.
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right, i thought they were just called pigs , next time i'm in a riot i'll spell it out
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(04-30-2012, 05:45 PM)billy Wrote: right, i thought they were just called pigs , next time i'm in a riot i'll spell it out
Lol, like cheer leading. 
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this is that post i thought was fan fiction 
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haha, if I was writing about Wonder Woman being my sidekick, that would be fan fiction... what a scary thought
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why was she called "wonder" woman...was she an indecisive person 
i wish i could get inside your head, you have some wonderful ideas 
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(05-31-2012, 04:18 PM)billy Wrote: why was she called "wonder" woman...was she an indecisive person
i wish i could get inside your head, you have some wonderful ideas At least she wasn't called wander woman or ponder woman lol. She could be contemplative... hmm, the adventures of ponder woman would be incredibly boring. Like the adventures of a daydream. All in her head.
I love words and ideas and the unexpected. For me writing is as much about playing with words and ideas as it is about telling meaningful a story.
although I know I'm still guilty of lazy writes and cliches too.
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Flash is to prose what Haiku is to poetry, I'm surprised Billy hasn't tried his hand.
number disagreement "a new world that shatter"
She was called Wonder Woman, because everybody wondered how her "power lobes" could defy gravity like they did (especially in that shoulder-less costume)!
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Police as Pigs
"Back in 1809, Sir Robert Peel entered the House of Commons in London - he developed a passion for Sandy Back pigs found in Ireland and began to breed them in Tamworth. Soon, these pigs were known as Tamworth pigs. Pig slang was commonplace in Tamworth because of this, it was in 1829 that the relation to police came into it.
Politicians were concerned about the way London was policed and Sir Robert Peel changed things - his changes resulted in the formation of the Metropolitan Police. This is why police are referred to as 'Bobbies' or 'Peelers'; they were Bobby's boys...
Due to the pig nature that Tamworth had become, the police suffered the same fate as other Tamworth products did: They became related to pigs."
Also again in the 1960's the usage of pig for got became popular, primarily as an a way to agitate the police during protests, and sit ins. The first noted usage is said to be in Aug of 1968 at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. However, I can personally remember people using it before 1968, my recollection is that it was most often involved with protest (beginning in 1964) against the Vietnam war, which per-dates the '68 date by several years. I'm not sure why they were called pigs, outside of it being an obvious insult, and that there was already that connection established. Certainly there was the idea the cop worked for "the man", or the establishment, and was in charge of enforcing restrictive policies. More than anything I think it was just a good insult. Snake, or ass didn't really seem to fit.
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