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when i'm with you, / my heart does not beat. / it drums and thuds and thumps
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Dec 10, 2012
pacific ocean
i wish i could swim the pacific ocean and back. / and when i came back to sit in front of a burning burning fire / until it dried me to the bone.
9
Sep 26, 2010
one million times
i have been told one million times that / love conquers all but it seems the coordinates / of my existence have never been found or
12
Jul 18, 2010
communion
i have relied on circumstance and fate all of my life. / god has never shone down on me and occupied / my life with luck.
10
Jun 29, 2010
how i felt for a year after you left me in the park and your swing kept swinging- like a pendulum towards my heart
loneliness crept on every breath
1
Jun 29, 2010
puke
I felt every cell of each of your knuckles / As it collided with my cheekbone / And as my face was ripped from its symmetry
5
Jun 29, 2010
ocean
inhaling the ocean breeze and feeling it empty my lungs makes me feel completely intact / i can taste the salt in its entirety on my tongue and i try to scrape it all off with my front teeth / i feel the waves roaring over my heart, liberating it from veins and its arteries, the sea filling the orifices of my organs
6
Jun 29, 2010
words
i feel choked by my words, / they are swelling inside my skull / and they are lathering me in sentiment and folly.
16
Jun 29, 2010
sunday afternoon
like sitting beside the window feeling tortured by the torrential rain, wishing that it was pounding at my surface, scratching away at my pores. / having bluegrass melodies sweeping up my ears, filling them with banjos and voices as cavernous as the grand canyon / and watching you laying on the carpet, your legs crossed, rolling a cigarette as if you were caressing skin,
5
Jun 21, 2010
grief
grief struck me like a lightning bolt / the anguish thundered in my gut, tasting the / sting of it's acid decimating my throat
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Jun 21, 2010
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