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The Number Line of Life
Time is measured / in problem sets and exams / birthday parties and housewarming parties and frat parties
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Worms
my brain is a pile / of writhing pink earthworms / tangled up like confusing spaghetti,
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Jenga
Everyone is so / scared. / How could you not be?
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Squeaky Clean
peppermint patties: / they're really just chocolate / with toothpaste inside.
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grapefruit
I will never be able to eat a grapefruit again without thinking of you. / I remember when I used to hate that sour flesh / It made the sides of my mouth turn down
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Cruising
Sipping iced coffee, / so creamy, so fresh. / Hair whipping out from its knot,
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Dead Butterflies
I don't have butterflies fluttering about my tummy. / It's more like / a large mass of dead butterflies
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38B
Her ******* grow and shrink, / rise and fall like lava-spewing volcanoes, / Balloon out and shrivel in
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bleghhh, self-care
self love and affirmations / are so cringeworthy to me -- / that's mean, i know.
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Depression is
Climbing six flights of stairs / to smoke on the roof, alone. / Cold seeping through your white robe,
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