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ObsolescenceI’m planning my own happiness just for you to ruin it / I’ve lived a thousand lives not one of them with you in it / Each one I’m born a serpent but I can’t find my own tail
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Dec 18, 2025
This yearI might make this the year I tell the men in my life when they do something that hurts / Probably not but it’s what I curl up and close my eyes about at night and let soak behind my eyelids into my dreams. / Katahdin is not a volcano. You can’t come into my life whenever you want. The way you forget everything I did for you makes me feel like garbage. I would like you to acknowledge the hurt and not just how I’m reacting to it.
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Jan 28, 2024
Everybody knows who they are until they loseEverybody knows who they are until they lose. / But if I scrape together my earnings I have enough to show for at least a little time where things were probably true, and ok / It wasn’t the proudest I’ve been. Probably not even the second.
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Aug 8, 2023
SoilsWhen the bugs crawl on me I am reminded that I was always earth. / The sticky detritus that folds in nitrogen and small stones / Buds and sprouts that yawn from the loam
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Mar 8, 2023
FullyRun two over 10 minute miles. / Feel sick on the treadmill. / Buy $15 worth of Whole Foods hot bar.
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Jan 12, 2023
Water signWith my head all the way under I can hear it / The drain from the overflow / My lengthy breaths like brush strokes
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Nov 19, 2022
Aged outFor as long as I can remember / I’ve wanted to be older / Older than I was
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Aug 16, 2022
LoverotI’m a soft moan in the mewing darkness / Our skin is see-through just around the edges / Paler than we might remember
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Dec 15, 2021
NeedlesThere are two things I’ve had closest to a fear / Needles, / And my own uncertainty
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Aug 5, 2020
Pulling Away from the EdgesNot like eggs in a frying pan / Prying them shyly as to not burn your breakfast / It's not like
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Feb 16, 2015
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