anna-zagersonWhisper

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Raspberry RipeI fear for myself at thirty, forty for these walls of life’s Gloom / Are closing fast on the cubicle of my Young existence / Like a tepidly-loved first job that becomes your Life’s Work
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Emily and MeUnsticking our young dimpled thighs from the leather seats / We swirl sodas, lemon bitter, in the back of your moma's old car with the fresh smell / Banging our shins into the metal girding of Coney Island's landmark Ferris wheel,
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Brown BananaThere are hidden pleasures / Inside the fruit that nobody wants / Peel back the brown banana skin
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The Social NetworkNothing matters because this is all too transient / Facebook smiling photos granola girls with hair flying up / Faces red from drinking and being pressed by their boyfriends surprise birthday parties Oh
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ForevermoreSpeak while there is still time / Don’t worry if your words aren’t grand or noble / Because we as people all come to realize we’re not always grand or noble.
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Take My PictureI want to be captured just as I am right now / My worries and trials show in my face where before there was only the sweet depth of young hope / The path I have to walk, with its forks marked Mother and Therapist and Citizen of the World loom before me, their pebbly grounds flat
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Open Windows, Open DoorsBe my lazy Saturday / Open yourself up to me / Spread yourself on my pillow
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Like It or NotLike it or not, each place holds a memory / I may not have played on these streets / But cemented beneath the building lamplights is my first real kiss--
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Your Arms with RosesThere's a lonely French horn on my heart / The curl of its handle is our story / Hours by the door, slumped like in the flickering Xanax commercials on the screen I haven't sunk into
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The RunawayWhere I was blind, you touched me and I saw / That my Body is an intercity Map site and I see my bright night-lights / Red lights of a thousand backlights glowing like a wash of neon blood down the streets of my veins
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