Emmamendesofficial
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27 / F / South Africa
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Benecio
Suppose I am just blue.
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pale, hardly replicable.
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Neither black; nor white but
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lacking saturati
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Sep 24, 2024
Blue Couch.
I was wedged between blue leather, scribbling axes into the shape of question marks; and you were la
6
Sep 22, 2024
Dutch
I carry you in my heart;
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in my head; in my bones.
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I would have carried you to the earth's end, /
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Sep 24, 2024
Dutch Love
Did you know? Did I know?
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Did I bury you before death?
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Am I culpable of a sinful sentence?
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Sep 25, 2024
How To Heal A Burn:
I tell them to watch a movie- that one when the sun sets like aloe on their scalded skin, that one w
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Sep 23, 2024
Stomping On Melons
So, what happens now?
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Now that it is all over.
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Is there hope for us yet?
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Yet? It is plain to s
6
Sep 21, 2024
Sylvia Sexton.
They say I am like her,
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and her,
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but that is
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blasphemous,
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backhanded as
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my sorrow must
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b
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Sep 21, 2024
The Sow That Sewed
sweet and sour,
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he is sucking sap
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from the teat of a
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talentless swine.
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her sapping, sip-less
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Sep 23, 2024
Tommy Left Petrol In The Womb.
Please weave your
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nerves along
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My bones,
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my marrow is
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your supper.
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Please wrap your
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neve
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Sep 25, 2024
What's In A Name?
Claim my burden but never
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offer your shoulder
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to confide,
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to cry,
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But you have no tears to s
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Oct 16, 2024
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