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SimplicityI was never a simple person / but I craved simplicity like I craved my grandmother's strawberry jam / I loved school, whistling and everything taller than me

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Finally FreeWe were suckleberry sonnets / Crabapple tree climbers / Little girls in pink frills

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I never wanted to write this poemI told you to Lend me your lips / and I'll teach you what love is, I said / I'll let my eyes become your moon

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I threw you to lionsI listen to Keaton Henson when my head is spinning / My head is constantly spinning / There are 124 moments in a day where I have to close my eyes

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Cigarette ButtsIt's been 4 months and 17 days since you were last in my time zone / All I can think about is how warm you must be in San Francisco / never dreamed you'd actually go

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WastedYou'll find me in the garden / pulling up the roots / claiming my boots are the only thing in my life that's grounded

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The BoyFour years ago I kissed your eyelids / and told you that when we grew old / I would tell them to bury my dead body right next to yours

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todaytonight there's a fire in texas / & it's screaming out for the all the bodies it's lost there / in some grand american war

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HonestlyThere was some kind of emptiness in my eyes last night / I could feel it / like a tornado sweeping over a deserted land

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tell me that it isn't overremember last winter when you folded my wool socks / & whispered that my tiny feet were whimsical / i looked at you & thought the same

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