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light pollutionThe glow of a city night comes in through my window / And keeps awake my always-empty stomach and heart / Night skies look sick with green

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dollfaceThere was nothing plastic / About the way your smile showed / Or about the way your arms felt

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our houseSince our lives were complicated / By outside reason / Our house has been loud with voices

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hospital bedsI realized I'd never really visited a hospital bed. / I'd been once for the birth of my sister, / but all I remember are the boxes of krispy kreme doughnuts

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false triptych #1I. Life was like alternating tides in your hands. I spent my time in crushed nausea between your currents, confused and longing, and calm waters slow and disappointed. / II. You seemed so delicate, almost like a girl with your shirt hanging off one bony shoulder, and I wanted to imagine it undone, but you were so easy to underestimate. / III. All your windows face to the east, and our evenings never saw you in direct sunlight, so tell me why the present seems so bright, and the future so dim.

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triptych #4I found Jesus at the end of the street, up on steps moss-spotted green, / hung on stylized barbed wire sculpted oh-so-sincere. Of all the things / to pass through my mind, the first is Martha Stewart’s favorite color

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if you are...I amof slight stature / your shoulders are beautiful in the sunlight / you couldn’t not know that

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bottlecap collectionI am one of those people who collects bruises like old bottlecaps. / I count them from time to time, but I can never remember where / I got them.

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triptych #2I. Eventually we forgot your myth because I saw / nothing in it. An epic’s just opinion, and I couldn’t / find the rhythm, so I abandonned it. We all have

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triptych #3I. You know I resent you for a thousand things, / like how she and I don’t talk anymore. But most / of all because you didn’t love me. Like how you

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