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Meditations on a high school yearbook (exercise)
Hardly thought of yet fondly remembered / moments redacted from memory / adoration and anguish become friendship and folly
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Girl at the perfume counter
She asked me / would you like a sample? / I didn’t
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Blind Love (UGH)
Today I saw a dog couple / walking their blind people. / I wonder if they guide their owners
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Regardless
Looking at him falling, / I wonder what he thought, if he thought. Or if / it was just a mad dash, an act of last resort.
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Cold Sweat-3:35 am
The buttons will all be pressed / Men and women / of Conviction and Character
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For Solomon and Seeger
Gliding across the hardwood / with band-aids on both ankles, / bare feet collect summer sand and cigarette ash,
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Oh.
I’d write you a love letter but the thing is / My printer is out of ink and my internet is down / plus my spellcheck is ****** up and I don’t want to
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All night and Infinity
I need an analog clock. / I want to hear the slow, soft click of its hands as time trudges forth. / That constant reminder of age, death, and insecurity.
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The generation of / attention / deficit
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