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how to make me fall in love with you
it's a lot harder than you think. / you have to be from the South, like me / or the North, like I want to be
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Sep 20, 2012
boy #1
you always seem to be around when I do / the stupidest of things / like that one time
54
Oct 19, 2011
La Llorona
i wonder / if someone else called you / to tell them a story
106
Oct 23, 2010
begrudgingly.
I tiptoe hence from / crack to crack in the / asphalt of our parking lot
113
Sep 29, 2010
The Children of Eden.
I thirst. / You rip through here / a hurricane
85
Sep 7, 2010
To my ex's friends
To my ex's friends / who all friended me on Facebook / even though I'd never met you
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Aug 10, 2010
copper pennies
My grandfather's not dead / but you act like he is / the way you tiptoe around the closed oak door
62
Aug 8, 2010
Photo Album Findings
I saw a baby picture of myself the other day / Not much has changed / I was smaller back then
38
Jul 27, 2010
Construction.
a stripe of asphalt on the blanket of green / I stare wordlessly out into other people's lives / peeking past the violet-tinted windows of the freeway
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Jun 23, 2010
The Edge of Reality
The waves slither over the rocks and wink / cutting into the soles of our flesh / whispering sweet nothings to the porcelain of skin
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Jun 4, 2010
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