lindsey-miller
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this pollution.
what's the point of buying a portrait if you are blind? / nothing i would see is worth my precious time— / just more metal, bad skin, and tired, jealous eyes
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a social butterfly's lament.
***** comet / burning bile / physically sick of the party people—
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we take pillowtalk to the next level.
it has been a long while since i felt comfort in this place. / for a short while there was only resentment and fear. / differing fingers, gently laced with clasped palms, say *i missed you*,
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mechanic depressive
frantic antics rewire my brain, / almost as if it were never a brain at all— / circuits and switches and copper thread,
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eternal darkness of the spiteful mind
i am being aimlessly guided by a decrepit side street. / the smell of who-knows-what hangs in the still like an occupied noose / as i strain to ignore the unpleasant moisture on my brow,
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the afterparty
cocktail heels / sharp as tacks / watch your feet
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webs in her head
she's desperately / rummaging / for the few remaining shards of modesty—
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putting the plea in "please"
my poor cones and rods / are victims of a sensual seclusion / when every hue begs to be seen
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it's more like a writer's drawbridge.
the absence of a proper muse / incessantly plagues her / with an illness that can’t be cured
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tumbledown
strapped to the darkest horse / on a hell-bound carousel / here where colors envelop each other
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