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I can't say this out loud.You probably understand. Or maybe you don't, after all. Either way, it is jumping around inside me and if I don't let it out soon all my carbonation will fizz up and run over the side of my glass and I don't want to waste all that sweetness. / I want to kiss you underwater. / I want that kiss to be the only thing keeping us alive. Down there we are foreigners, aliens. Grasping, I want to feel your flesh in stark contrast to the smooth wetness all around me, like a secret.

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ReconciliationMy dreams / don't have to occur in a frigid state, / where the wind blows across the Great Lakes and straight through me.

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La petite mortUntil today, I never understood heartache. / I never understood that thinking about you (how the thoughts come unbidden yet so welcome entrancing encompassing dizzying worrying wonderful) - / your name

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BleachI spent four hours on my knees / scrubbing bathroom tiles / working though anxiety

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So, you've read my poetry?So, you've read my poetry? / You've skimmed the lines and picked out words you think are pretty, / delicate, intelligent, or odd?

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the watchOne night, while I waited for you / I sat in the midwest summer heat, hot and sticky / like juice from a sun-ripened peach-

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HydrochloricMy heart is curled in my chest, sitting low; it can't be bothered. / You and I are both deaf. You cannot hear me screaming for you and I cannot hear myself wailing "STOP." / Even the tips of my fingers cry out and good lord does it burn;

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WiltingI can feel my hopelessness in my legs / They’re all sort of settled, sinking into the bed like logs into soft loam / burrowed into by all manner of insects,

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A General AnnouncementRemember Gentlemen: / Bad behavior is to be rewarded, not rebuked. / The birds are too busy pecking at one another to build a proper prison system!

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plani am writing poems just to make You upset / when i should have learned from the lesson You taught me / transparency hurts more than a punch in the *****

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