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an atheist's hymnhe sees the ocean in my eyes / ringed with sunshine (he provides) / he looks at me so steady

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Apr 5, 2016

camouflageI eat overripe fruit / bags of chips / bowls of cereal

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Jul 7, 2015

i hope it eats you tooi hope the beast we share / (our only remaining connection) / keeps you up at night,

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Jun 5, 2015

hold my handsometimes i trace my own hip bones / in the dark, / and run my fingertips over the curvature of my spine,

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Mar 9, 2015

pretenderi have so much love to give. / i'm brimming with it. / it moves in me like water,

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Feb 17, 2015

forget-me-notin autumn, / gentle fingers press forget-me-not seeds / between her teeth,

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Nov 25, 2014

17I know I must be hard to love. / my body is all sharps angles, stretched tall / and draped with gold.

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Nov 16, 2014

i don't believe in god but i believe in uslately the tears have been coming easier and i don't know if it's from loss or from gain but i do know that i feel everything. / souls became real to me when mine wept into my favorite jacket at the sound of my best friend's voice breaking over the phone, and when it pressed up through my skin and forgot my body so that it could comfort every damaged mind it could sense. / my heart hurts for me but it hurts more for you, and him, and her, and them, because they will never understand what it means to care this **** much.

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Nov 9, 2014

Untitledit's 6:12 in the evening / and i have just arrived home / after a long day of listening

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Nov 5, 2014

leftoversthe problem with attachment is that / it has to end. / and the stronger the connection,

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Sep 27, 2014

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