joseph-cWhisper

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BulimiaPoetry is a disease / Words sit in your gut like rotten meat / You hold onto your stomach for dear life

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Five Shorts with Five LinesThere is a point in everyone's lives / Where they wake up screaming / To discover they haven't been sleeping

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Deadline ScorpioI'd like to trace your fault lines / Further than the bruises that grace under your eyes / And to trace the epicenter to our star signs

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Rotten ApplesWe are the fury and the greed and the filthy hearts of fishermen / Wrapped necks in their own line fed on by the fish with milk white eyes / We are the rotten apples plucked off the tree of the divine

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The WaspsThere was a young boy sitting on a porch swing / Thinking about the nest of wasps nestled under the gutter / He had been attacked by the nest after venturing too close

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Summer DaysWe never found Rio after that party on the beach / We thought she just ran off with some rich man / Then two weeks later her body washed up on the shore

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DragonslayerI pulled the sword from the stone / I struck you down and road you to the Earth / With a bow and a kiss I wiped the blood from your lips

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The Adrenaline DreamWe were primates swinging from the branches of skyscrapers / And our cooing come ons lost in translation / Sharing body heat to keep us warm inside old office buildings

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Left of the DialI keep hearing voices I know aren't real / But I listen in tuning into the A.M. / You try to force it but I'm preoccupied

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The Piano TunerPlaying kiss and tell with a broken speak n spell / Like a backward broken record, needle dug into my nerves / Slurring love into a verb, I'm drunk on your curves

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