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Ascending Through Never Sink
I commit to poems the second that I begin writing them,
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And here I am committing to this one,
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My
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Electricity
A pulsing electricity
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Fuels your computer
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Which takes you to websites
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You'd rather not visit /
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Tulip
If we were the kind of friends who unironically
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raised our glasses in toasts,
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I would give one t
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Spitting Watermelon Seeds
We’d sit on the back porch
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On the Fourth of July
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Spitting watermelon seeds
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Into the tall grass
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Syria / Like Me
Syria may be falling-
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And though you'll be told
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Syria's fall doesn't mean
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Yours,
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It means a
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Hung Over Blue Spirals: A Poem for 2014
. **Part One** .
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*January*
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I wake up in a hungover haze that seems
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Irrevocably unending. All t
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At Summer Camp
The summer camp
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Isn't what you love-
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It's the trees
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And the acceptance
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That you don't find /
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After Our Final Attempt at Reconciliation
Two years ago on Valentine's Day
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We had an attempt at reconciliation
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And did 69 on a small sweat
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Ukulele
I remember playing the ukulele
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A year ago
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With you in my living room,
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My fingers showing yours
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Climbing Trees at Dusk
And then I too
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am part of the silence
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that casts its post-sunset stillness
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throughout this swa
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