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all my friends' childhood dogs are dyingthe line between madness and genius is a pattern noticed a hair's breadth / too far from the crossing lines vibrating in our eyes / like cats raised vertically can't see horizons
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Jan 23, 2014
all will be, regardlesswhen i begin to free-wheel / and shudder with contempt / i take comfort in the thought
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May 24, 2013
a love letter to some londonersthese days i fill my lungs with smoke / to insulate my brain / and consider the londoners
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Feb 19, 2013
an argument for standing stilli can't fathom the depths of the ocean / and i don't know if that's a cliche or a pun or both / but being with him made me want to watch glaciers calve
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Oct 9, 2014
and/so/used toshe used to make me want to dance like sinewy frogs' legs doused in salt / so when i'm gone she could still steep my bones for soup. / and when my words tried to be music she'd curl a haughty lip and tell me
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Jan 5, 2013
anniversary of my fugue statethis was the day / one year ago / that was swallowed
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Feb 9, 2013
a real nail-biteri used to taste like finger nails, / ragged stumps refreshing / against my lips, like a sip
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Apr 27, 2013
at leasti came out of despairing with the help of two words / that kissed my eyelids and sighed smiles in my hair: / at least
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Mar 11, 2014
australiaone night or midafternoon you fell asleep / and snored lightly in my ear. / i stroked your hair (it was longer then)
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Jan 7, 2013
benevolent tumoreach time i see a dead man's face / i think i'd maybe known him / flirted with him in a bar perhaps
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Oct 10, 2013
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