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My absence was a mortifying misfortune, / The ponies drew their swords at the amity, / The sunset hung close to my crackling toes.
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My Love is a Toaster
Some say I treat you like you’re on a roller coaster / My way of thinking: / My love is a broken toaster,
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Cancer
The world was crashing before her eyes and the movie was playing / over and over. / Blood flowing through her air, wiped off by bright colors she despised.
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Words.
Somedays, I hope my words mean nothing. / They are little glass figures of bunnies sniffing, and china plates my mother puts out when the better people come. / I hope me saying,
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Us and the soul
We hold a soul between our two hearts. / You: the armor / I: the misplaced
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Descending Decades
It's a rather pathetic feeling to be judged, / you feel miserable, hopeless. / Magic spells relieve the judgment, and
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Bitter
My lips kiss the heat in the air, pretending you're holding my swollen hips. / I'm hypnotized by your every move and word. / Yet you come and go like our diseases we hold.
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Untitled
Rain dancing towards a puddle on my tongue / reaching for something external, an embrace that chokes us. / This beautiful black bike thats engine screams like my fringed back,
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Never Matching Up.
Age 5 / There we sat, you in criss cross applesauce, / I sat on my chicken legs.
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The Divorce
I signed this providence with no reluctance / and I loved him. / His kisses had the same satisfaction of catching raindrops in my mouth,
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