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AddictSo which Mother do you blame? / She who endowed you with charcoal skin / Burnt by the searing torch of her womb?
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Dec 23, 2012
Adolescencego anywhere but to the movies. / show up to a party, / sip ***** in the kitchen,
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Dec 27, 2012
AdulthoodWhen you’re thirty, you’re supposed to know / things already. You’re supposed to have / your **** together. A wife, maybe
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Mar 25, 2015
AfterdeathI came to the rocky shores of Greece / To stand amid the rows of stark white houses / To find your face in a mirage that spreads across
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Dec 23, 2012
a perpetual question markHe leaves / a perpetual question mark / Closes a gap
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Feb 6, 2016
Before we fell silentbefore we fell silent / you said, “I am going to die” / and I couldn't tell if you were being serious
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Dec 23, 2012
BurnHow does it feel / to burn a hole into the evening? / Before our skins touch--let's sleep; let's heal
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Feb 15, 2015
But when I leavewhat will happen / to the rooms I filled with clothes and books / and shoes and plans and bodies?
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Feb 6, 2016
chicken is ******Warm moist / Thigh dark meat lingers / Like a cowboy's drawl
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Mar 2, 2015
CrazyOnce, I bathed in anxiety, / soaking it all into my follicles and letting it slide / between my bones and through my muscles like ice water.
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Mar 25, 2015
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