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Let's Write a Folk Punk SongMy mother's not an alcoholic but she's plenty of things I'd like to sing / Thanks for criticizing my skinny jeans and fucked up child hood teeth. / Here's to making my first girlfriend cry and squashing my beliefs,

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A Corny Love PoemI like how this all started - history notes then a drunk hike. / I like that I believe you when you tell me it'll be alright. / I like how we can talk for hours and neither of us get bored,

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animal crackersTen milligrams of adderall, bought from the girl across the hall. / Speaking in a British accent because I'm lovely at lying, / and even better at believing it myself.

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grassI thought I'd miss your mouth the most, / worn down teeth all uniform / from grinding them in your sleep,

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obedientI remember when you told me my body would rot, / and I agreed. I remember when you told me I am / nothing. I agreed, and said it back. You are nothing

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RequestsColor me green like my aura / and the needles of the Christmas tree. / Begged, color me free like the forest

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Happy Birthday, DarlingOn February twenty-fifth / exactly twelve days from today / I'd like to show up

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StillYou are not the ocean because I do not know that well, / you are not a meadow nor a stroll around the park. / None of these things mean much to me, although

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Traveling CircusI spent my past few days sleeping through daylight / waking only to taste the raindrops collected on the outside of my window, / begging the sky to feed me more and the moon to lay me back to sleep.

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SisterSometimes I turn it into a game to see how many boys will promise to teach me how to swim, since my swimming lessons never stuck and I never bothered to learn when I grew enough to touch the bottom of my aunt's pool with my tippy-toes. Sometimes I like to count on my hands how many times I've been told that I'd be taken ice-skating in the winter and that, because my body is like a ballerina's and I can't dance, maybe I can skate and be brilliant at it. I've never seen a panda bear in real life, although we had made plans to go to the zoo over the summer. Skinny dipping is still only a silly idea to me since the water was "too cold" and "we might get caught." The movie Pulp Fiction was skipped for sex. So was the trip to the mall, playing video games, talking. My sister taught me how to ride a bike. I want to thank her.

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