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calcium
i tried to stop your calcium intake so that you would never grow / i wanted you to shrink so that i could keep you in my pocket / and you could gnaw through the fabric and plunge onto my toes.
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grief
grief struck me like a lightning bolt / the anguish thundered in my gut, tasting the / sting of it's acid decimating my throat
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communion
i have relied on circumstance and fate all of my life. / god has never shone down on me and occupied / my life with luck.
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i smoke and i think of you
i wake up and i think of you / and i look out of my window / it is grey and the lights stopped
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puke
I felt every cell of each of your knuckles / As it collided with my cheekbone / And as my face was ripped from its symmetry
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sunday afternoon
like sitting beside the window feeling tortured by the torrential rain, wishing that it was pounding at my surface, scratching away at my pores. / having bluegrass melodies sweeping up my ears, filling them with banjos and voices as cavernous as the grand canyon / and watching you laying on the carpet, your legs crossed, rolling a cigarette as if you were caressing skin,
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pinkie finger
when i was drunk i rang you and you didn't pick up your phone. / i came to your house and bashed the door until / my knuckle bones ripped in two. my fingers were
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how i felt for a year after you left me in the park and your swing kept swinging- like a pendulum towards my heart
loneliness crept on every breath
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pacific ocean
i wish i could swim the pacific ocean and back. / and when i came back to sit in front of a burning burning fire / until it dried me to the bone.
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ocean
inhaling the ocean breeze and feeling it empty my lungs makes me feel completely intact / i can taste the salt in its entirety on my tongue and i try to scrape it all off with my front teeth / i feel the waves roaring over my heart, liberating it from veins and its arteries, the sea filling the orifices of my organs
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