brandon-webbWhisper

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Your Absence Makes Me SmileI take my wallet out of my pocket / as I get ready to pull the blanket over me and go to sleep / I take my wallet out of my pocket so that in my sleep
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Aug 23, 2013
Top Of The WorldYou keep your right hand on the monster can / and steer with your left / down that rainy, bumpy gravel road in the middle of nowhere.
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Aug 15, 2013
Staring At Copper, Dreaming Of Silver.I rip the Moroccan good luck coin off of my neck / bury the coppery metal in the string I have wrapped it in / and throw it beside the empty monster BFC
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Aug 8, 2013
UntitledI feel the last few spare hairs fall away from the crystallized tower on top of my scalp / as our adopted mother walks by / spitting smoke into the breeze
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Jul 24, 2013
The Commute, Part OneThere are ten of us- / Make that eleven- / Barreling down the highway at highway speeds;
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Jul 15, 2013
Fireworks1. / He lights another mortar / and the dog runs after it
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Jul 7, 2013
FamilyI finish scooping a large serving of stir fry onto a styrofoam plate / with the two metal spatulas left on the counter for me. / I sidestep the forty something year old man who is our host
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Jul 3, 2013
This TownI walk out their back door / and onto F street. / I stand there for a second
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Jun 28, 2013
UntitledIncense smoke billows into the rays of fading sunlight / from the nostrils of the stone Buddha head / sitting on the wooden bookcase
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Jun 25, 2013
UntitledFor once, the tears aren't falling from my eyes / As I stand on this stage / the arm of the middle aged blond woman-
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Jun 4, 2013
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