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alex-clinton
alex-clinton
American I write mostly short stories, but every now and then, a poem or two.
And to think. I've just thrown you away like an empty bag. But you're still full! How did I miss even the crumbs waiting in your shiny recesses, your crumpled volume? Every bit you have to offer, its better than the alternative. Wishing. And longing or whatever. I'm not proud. Its wasn't the glittering independent moment I thought it would be. Because you're still full and because I've just thrown you away.
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Apr 18, 2012
Apr 18, 2012 at 12:37 AM UTC
Untitled
You hand just hangs there like a question. I want to reach for it. To fold it into my smaller one. To fold it into the corner of my existence that I have left open, swept clean, for some time now. Waiting for the right one to crawl into it and stay for a while. I can feel the crackle of your skin from here. Without even touching it. That the sound of air leaving your lungs makes my body clench low and wet and tight seems almost unfair. But to understand that you aren't moved by me at all, that too, seems unfair. That when my hand hangs in the air like a question, you don't even understand that your hand is the answer.
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Apr 4, 2012
Apr 4, 2012 at 2:17 PM UTC
Q&A
I keep coming back to you. I try to write about other things. but I get stuck on you. constantly. I replay conversations and interpret glances and touches. I want to write about your muscular hands and your heavy jaw. And your tongue but the words aren't good enough. I want to write about you but I can't and I can't write anything else. Because I keep coming back to you.
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Mar 23, 2012
Mar 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM UTC
back
you were quiet and i was loud, talkative you asked to borrow a pencil so i gave you the one with the hellokitty stickers on it just to see you smile you gave it back with a note and i read in my car in the parking lot after class it said that you thought my hands were beautiful, but i always thought that they were too small and definitely too pudgy and said so underneath the scrawl of hellokitty’s graphite. oh, and thanks when i gave it back, you looked confused and turned the scrap over to show me the name on the front and it wasn’t mine that same day someone slashed the tires on your honda accord
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Feb 20, 2012
Feb 20, 2012 at 11:08 PM UTC
pencil