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Air
When I look at you
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You send shivers
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No – sparks.
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The air is charged with them
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Dense.
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I can
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Pebble
Tossing and turning
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In my bed –
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A pebble.
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Slowly I am rocked by
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Waves of dreams
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Until I am
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Lungs
All I have now – all that is left –
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is a handful of mementos that your fingertips lingered on
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Forgetting
Do you remember when I laid in bed with you and cried
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because telling you about me hurt to do?
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B
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Fuck Sundays anyway
Because I’m a fat ass.
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Because I was already irritated.
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The way you were hanging on me.
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The wo
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Anxiety
I feel it starting, like a prickle down my spine.
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My rubbery lungs expand and push
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against my ri
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A World
River veins and the sun
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for a heartbeat -
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alternating with
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the moon.
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Rainforest tresses fall
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Ink
Thick
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Black
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Ink
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Oozes out
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Seeping from
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A warm, dank cavern.
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It sticks
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Blots
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Stains /
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Fireflies
The evening slips away
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like fireflies through fingers.
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Your eyes turn from the color of sand at
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Earth
Earth
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worms the color of
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bruised tongues wriggle
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out of sodden dirt and
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splay themselves out
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