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~I am not the ocean. / The ocean cannot fit in a drugstore at nine pm, blinking up at fluorescent lights / hearing giggling
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Oct 9, 2013
After a phone call in the early morning.Even when I face problems miles high and fathoms deep / my books still make me cry. / Sometimes love in stories rings truer than any reality -
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Mar 18, 2013
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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Mar 18, 2013
BleachI spent four hours on my knees / scrubbing bathroom tiles / working though anxiety
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Jun 29, 2012
Can'tHow could I forget / a clenching ache so horrible and sweet / sweetly horrible
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Oct 6, 2013
CrowdedWhat does it matter if no one likes me / when worlds away a spider blinks its translucent eyes / and takes another step
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Feb 19, 2013
DecorumI want lace and ruffles / Long skirts and demure smiles behind a dainty fan / I want a man to ask for permission
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Feb 25, 2012
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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May 28, 2013
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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May 23, 2013
In the SunI stretch, / my body limber, / cat-like, and spry.
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Jan 14, 2012
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