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it’s quiet now that i’ve opened my eyes

i closed my heartand it hurt me to do a thingnoise banginglike rockshitting glass inside my head,like rivers river-ing in ragei envy those hillswith bee-buzzing blankets ofseedy dandelionseverybody is screaming at methe world is in its blackest hourand i bet … Continue reading

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don’t mistake my grimace for a smile

i can’t be the only one.isn’t it hot in here?i’ve been up since 4:48AM.my luck, we’re out of coffee.city so full of potholes.let’s call it Moontown.everybody’s hair is purple now.winter is on the way but it’s okay.el nino or plastic … Continue reading

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not because i said so

the thing about trying is, it makes you give a shit about shit you shouldn’t give a shit about.i know. i tried before.no one likes to talk about their past.the mistakes. the regrets. the people we’ve hurt.it’s all the same … Continue reading

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even if

I’d want to know who you are even if we were strangers. I’d want to give you my first kiss. I’d wait a day past forever even if.

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conversations we had

all in my head i thought you said ‘i love you’ instead what you really said is ‘i need you’ needs aren’t wants and neither is close to love which is a feeling undetermined by the brain solely powered by … Continue reading

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get out of your house

Get out of your neighborhood. Get out of your town. Get out of your state. Get out of your country. Go out of this world.

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shake rattle boom

if these walls told stories they’d be crying tear me apart! fussin’ about the lies he told back when it mattered- won’t change the fact that now- baby’s shredding the inner parts of my ear- it’s ringing- ringing like that … Continue reading

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the moon don’t dance

Gravity. Things fall.It isn’t a dance, you see.No, it is a law.

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there’s an old saying that when we go fishing we pull up strings

at the ends, we won’t know where we’d been led or exactly where to go. to be trussed and knotted lines of our pasts be forgotten or whirling in fish traps tangled in waves as the sea slaps, we can’t … Continue reading

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This is what you say

Tell ’em your soup was too hot. It hit your throat like lightning. You couldn’t holler about it. The shock was volcanic and frightening. They’ll have their doubts. Will say you never cried, you should’ve bellowed out, we’ve heard Wolf … Continue reading

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