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    Journal of a Madman
    Journal of a Madman
    Journal of a Madman
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    Journal of a Madman

    By Ryan Szeto

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    If youre familiar with Jack Karouac, this book almost follows similar aspects. Unlike Jacks long typewriting style journal of his trip cross country, this book is more journalistic. Each page is broken down into poem form and you could literally rip out a page of my life. Hopefully, these words can show you what happened to me that day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 30, 2012
    ISBN9781475927566
    Journal of a Madman
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    Ryan Szeto

    RYAN SZETO, who’s worked in retail most of his life, dreams of telling stories through any medium. He has a BA in graphic design and dreams working at some big film company someday even if it’s his own company. Ryan has never thought of himself as a writer but his family and friends pushed him to publish something and it’s finally here.

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      Journal of a Madman - Ryan Szeto

      Copyright © 2012 by Ryan Szeto.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-2755-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-2756-6 (ebk)

      iUniverse rev. date: 05/21/2012

      Contents

      Preface

      Burden

      Bloody Pages

      Cold Nights

      Useless

      Lonely home

      Living Hell

      Angel’s heaven

      Faceless hero

      Settled Cowboy

      Along Came a Spider

      Little Boy

      Courage

      Run

      Give

      The Memories

      Battling the odds with myself

      Forget

      Do you really want to know

      Heart of a hero

      Broken Hero

      Is it me?

      Since I fell

      True friend

      I promise

      The fallen heart

      To whom it may concern

      You’re not here

      Tired

      Me

      Journey for Heart

      Empty Heart

      Astray

      Never Loose

      In you I trust

      Mad Liar

      Life Changes

      Shifts

      Devil’s Doorstep

      Ending Beginning,

      Beginning End

      The Beaten

      Plays Life, Plays You

      Wasted days

      Burning Forgiveness

      How it is

      Preface

      First and foremost, thank you for purchasing this book and taking interest in who I am and what I went through in the last few years to conjure up these pages.

      It took a lot of strife and heartache to type all these words that you are about to read and thusly, I hope you can find where these lines fit in your life. I just hope that I wasn’t the only one that went through all of that pain for nothing. Just take into consideration that each poem that I wrote was a chapter in my life and think of each of them as another chapter in a book. I realize after typing all of this down, each poem sounded like a modern version of Edgar Allen Poe. Another person mentioned to

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