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Everything's Fine
There was a little boy
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once, crouched nervous
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on the stairs, in the house with no heating,
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his
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Nov 11, 2012
Asthma
crushed up
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our love, a cloud in the air
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like the death of a moth
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crumpled in a child's palm, /
19
Aug 31, 2012
I am Poorly
Itching, itching
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in unending irritation,
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eyes puffy and leaking,
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spilling salt
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over molten c
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Aug 31, 2012
Tumbleweed
Could we cut ourselves off from our country?
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Burn all the books and monochrome rules;
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Sever the
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Aug 31, 2012
Bastards of Autumn
You storm the kitchen like livid soldiers
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in hollow combat
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brandishing stingers,
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no camouflage
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Aug 28, 2012
A Dream, to my Mother
The sun loses its shine
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in spiralling time
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and a world decays
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in the greyness of age;
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so the
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Aug 27, 2012
Withering Midnight
The sweetness of love
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by night is fated to sour
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as the blood drips
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like dewdrops from every bo
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Aug 27, 2012
You
Into a kettle
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I let vapour drip, all of you - witches brew
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- I float and whip
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your ev’ry hue,
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Aug 10, 2012
Ascend and Descend
Across the hills I swung my feet
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and skipped along, tingling with glowing glee,
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my trainers trea
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Jun 18, 2012
A Telephone Message
For the first time
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in years, I have spoken
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to you; not in person, alas -
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on the phone, it is t
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Jun 13, 2012
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