sal-gellesWhisper

American

Untitledhow can silence be so loud? / i can hardly stand it, i want to put on a record and turn it all the way up. / i want to plug my guitar in and crank the amp the whole way and just play one chord.

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Dec 4, 2023

Untitledmy kids sleep without knowing / that soon their home will be broken, / that they'll have to live in 2 houses

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Dec 4, 2023

Untitledmy fire's burnt out / and i don't have another match. / i'll freeze, for sure.

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Dec 3, 2023

Untitlednumbing the parts that fought / to numb the parts that say it's best not / to fight.

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Dec 3, 2023

I bought my wife flowersI bought my wife flowers a week after she told me about her affair / -----she promised me it wasn't anything physical, but that didn't stop me from being physically ill. / I framed a wedding picture so we'd finally have one after all these years

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Nov 13, 2023

O(PEN)I'd empty every devilish idea / in a minute to fulfill your imagination, / And I'd open every crack in every corridor

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Mar 7, 2020

wipe yer own ***it isn't some hard thing you have to do / you bunch it up in yer hands--- / you can't seem to let it all flush itself out anyway,

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Feb 27, 2020

UntitledEmptied of empathy / I forget / Anyway

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Oct 7, 2018

Untitledold scars, picked and bleeding. / a half empty bottle of whiskey, / violence in my headscape, escaping unnoticed,

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Jun 30, 2018

I SLeePI sleep in your dreams / And awaken in my own. / My own nightmares

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Jun 20, 2018

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