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Silence can be the greatest answer or the worst of evils / It is the absence of truth, it is the purest of statements / Silence is not quiet, it abandons its shame into a bottle and shatters it under its feet
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Mar 8, 2012
After Midnight
i'm so alone / the sun is this big orb and the moon is a big bore / take your peer-pressured practicalities into the closet
29
May 24, 2014
and then
it happens, the little shiver pats you on the back and compliments you / you stay mute, and it touches your eyelashes / it's whispering
14
Oct 10, 2011
Beforelives and Afterdeaths
in the darkness, the blankets are so warm and the religion so comfy / with its cushioned promises and feathered saints / how lovely it is to reach out and not see your fingers, but feel them wrapped around glass beads
25
Oct 23, 2011
dorothy anne
there are so many thing i want to tell you / it's like i'm an open sky and i'm just waiting to spill constellations of light and explode ever so gently and politely into your eyes / it isn't fair you know
35
Jun 4, 2014
Him
it seemed like you were always waiting / for what, / i don't know
22
Nov 3, 2013
i can't learn piano
here i am, waxing poetic and waning harangue / learning to quit but teaching to win / if losers don't win, and winners never cry
12
Oct 16, 2011
If and only
The sky is not crying, neither is it blessing you / The trees do not dance, neither do they feed you / God does not curse you, neither is He watching you
13
Mar 7, 2011
I Won't
I'm scared, / petrified of retreating to nostalgia and chaining my ambition there / of settling for the everyday, to never dream of "ifs" and "maybe's"
18
May 17, 2012
Jack White Obituary
little girl blue in a house of tea kettles strewn across the mantel / they sputtered and shrieked / while she whispered soft promises into the sheets but had fists
21
May 24, 2014
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