jillWhisper

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The dumbest metaphor ever.We are all closets. / Some of us keep our doors closed / Some of us leave our light on

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Icicles and Automobiles.You once told me that / I reminded you / Of Icicles.

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Standing on the Milky Way.I once met a boy on the school bus I used to ride / I find it ironic that I was walking down the aisle / When I saw him

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Introvert. (Ten words)I don't know how to tell him / I'm happier alone

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Hearts are heavier than helium.I feel like my inability to tie shoes in Kindergarten was symbolic / Because that was the year I learned to cut strings / Rather than to knot them into something elegant

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Adieu.I before e except after c / But I wanted to be / Next to you

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I carry one thing that is permanent.There is a kid who sits behind me in third period / His name is Blake / Blake who matches brown with black

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Good Morning. (Ten Words)My thoughts are being served to me like breakfast / Scrambled

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Why this home is a hollow. (Ten words)They stopped coming over / When we stopped answering the door

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I just needed to say it.I had forgotten how good it felt to drive with the windows down until you flew past me. / Something free in the way your hair danced around your face, with your passenger's face in the wind, and your red truck - like glass wasn't installed. / I will never know you or see you again to thank you for letting your boxer ride shotgun instead of in his crate on the back, but I'm grateful that people like you exist.

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