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stagnation
There is an old adage - I'm sure you've heard it - that life without movement is death. / today I feel the truth of it / somewhere between my sternum and my spine
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Jul 9, 2014
A Tutorial on How to Fight Another Man's War
Step 1) Speak any language you want. / Helpful Tip: When men die, it doesn't matter what language they speak because all screams sound the same. / Step 2) Worship any god you please.
19
May 27, 2014
i wish i were the sun
You've put the sun at your back / To meet it rising on the other side of the ocean / I watch it sink and I am envious
10
May 5, 2014
for anyone who has had to start sleeping alone again
Loneliness is a hunger / That eats at my hands / At the vacant spaces between my fingers
11
May 4, 2014
we are the moon
arms draped in crescents / eyes open to the pale nighttime sadness / we lay like a mural on the darkness of bedsheets
9
Apr 28, 2014
it will be a very long time
it will be a very long time / before i stop thinking of your lips / every time
5
Dec 16, 2013
You Have Already Seen
you / brave and foolish soul / found me here
42
Nov 4, 2013
Ten words, for Her.
If I had a million hearts, / they'd all be yours.
2
Oct 16, 2013
Protestation
But who else will have peace in their palm / When they lay it across / My ribs
17
Sep 27, 2013
untitled 5
"I tried. I tried. I tried." / A scream so desperate it turns into the grating whine of a whipped dog. The begging in the eyes and the white of gripping knuckles. / "I tried, I promise I tried."
18
Sep 16, 2013
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