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daysleeping

the best thoughts come when i’m near sleep and too lazy to get up and jot them down.

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ENERGY

Energy is measured by how bright the room gets how warm smiles shine how high spirits are lifted how calm the nerves become how sweet the truth sounds when you enter the place.  

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Buffering

There is a twirling like the loading symbol of incomplete thoughts on a two-thirds filled waterbed.  

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Fighting

I didn’t notice the silence or the ringing in my ears I’m shaking keeping my fist stiff a walk in a dark alley The bullets bury themselves alive in the minds of thoughtful youths Blankets are still warm there’s cotton … Continue reading

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Am I okay alone

I don’t like walking behind smokers not because of the filth in their air It’s because I’ve already got a cancer And it’s in the way that I look at you I started picking at my nails around 2:30 then … Continue reading

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Rope.

I was a bully. I said all the bad things. I made her cry. I made her go back home. I made her quit. I broke all of the pieces. I broke. She came to me one day. She said … Continue reading

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In memory

What if we loved people the way we do when we’ve heard news that they’ve died? Wouldn’t your heartfelt cries mean more if they heard you while they were alive?

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Lodessa

Lodessa ran fast. She ran faster than the boys. Curly hair to her knees. Lodessa made a lot of noise. Her hips were as wide as her smile. Lodessa walked like anti-depressants. Lodessa could make you dream. She’d have you … Continue reading

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Back in the day

To the girl I said, “build a wall.” To the boy I said, “learn to climb.”

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Buzzing

It’s a shame we’ve been taught that you must be in the dark before you begin to glow.

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