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Drunk anthem slash insatiableThe way we love each other despite ourselves and the universe is insatiable. You’re the feast to my starving poetry, and I’m scrambling after you trying to unscramble all the pieces you let trail behind; I’ve spiraled into puzzling over every detail of your face and the imprints on your heart and the things you’re never really saying but silently radiating / The way we love each other with our whole arms and our whole hearts beating up against one other, magnetism pulling our bodies together all close and warm until our skin is melding and there is no more feeling or air, only lightness and the white behind your eyes / And even then, it isn’t enough—

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Dec 28, 2019

her bones are made of steel; i vaporizestumbling bowlegged through the last subway car, / loose-fit black rags bandaging frail limbs, / face twisted in a permanent scowl,

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Jun 16, 2019

Siempre lo sabíaSiempre sabía que eras demasiado como una nectarina / a principios de verano. Tú: sin poros y brillante e insinuando dulzura. / Me llenaste con tu erupción secreta, luego me apagaste

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Jan 4, 2019

I always knewyou were too much like a nectarine / in early summer. All poreless and bright / and insinuating sweetness. Filled me up

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Jan 4, 2019

If I Figure Out The Source Of Your Power, Can I Unravel It?I was never looking into you / I was only pouring an image of myself onto your canvas / Of course I didn’t know

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Sep 13, 2018

Music/ApocolypseI know what I want: / It / You

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Nov 15, 2016

String theoryI can't trace the crown of my indifference towards you (or anyone else) to a definitive source. / Whether you are strung to me or I to you, / our union imports

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Oct 22, 2016

I need to start lifting weightsThe finality and profundity / with which you broke me / has hardened me;

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Oct 10, 2016

MillennialsWe are renters / Living off leased land / Never land owners

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Oct 10, 2016

I was a specimen to youOne you peered at and collected data on / in the confines of your tantrum / journal

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Oct 10, 2016

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