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MothWhen you shed that chrysalis of clothing / Releasing the dragonfly wings of your longing / Wholly among the sanctity of your skystrung ribs
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JuneteenthWe celebrate Juneteenth as if the war was not still being fought / Across news stations and echoes of Jefferson's dreams / The last slaves freed, but this country was never
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Red Spinning Laughter, Wheels Bourbon RedWheels spin / Laughter Laughter / “Scooters are more fun” He says
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InceptionIt is not often I dream of you. / Dressed in copper and brick, / Growing green with vines,
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Kar AccidentWhen you told me that this was your seventh shot / With those pomegranate lips of yours / That drunken smile mixing with the salt on my brow
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DachauWhen I went to Dachau / I expected death / I expected ghosts
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Stubborn BoyStubborn boy / Let loose the shackles of your smile / This world is far too holy for you to
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Second BloomThe old man / A broken down factory / Sagging within the crumbled graffiti of his skin
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ResurrectionIf Charlie Parker / Could hang his hopes / That someone
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CollisionLike the shifting ways the ocean reaches for the shore / Or maybe how summer sun falls gently upon the backs of children / You came into my life softly
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