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Tulip
It is worse for a tulip to live again and be renewed / than for the tulip to die and be dead. / “What happens when you die?”
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Older women
I don’t know what to order so I order the cheapest thing on the menu / I don’t know if you have lotion, but if you do could I use some / you pulled something out of your pocket, that attracts the consumer I’m sure
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On describing a mood
She said she couldn't describe how she felt. / Maybe it was like having stomachaches in the Panera bathroom / or ******** about the erred logistics in the directions
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The 7th Floor
Counting young women in black leggings / and baseball caps, with ancient letters inscribed on the tops of them. / One-thousand, three-hundred, thirty-five dollars
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Wet
Coffee creamer rain drops, / wet and thirsty and cursing the turkey / who said too much water was too bad.
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Agitated muffin eating pt. 1
Contaminated. / Surely more Macbeth than Banquo. / Level two: Lust.
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Free chocolate chip pancakes
I asked you to come downstairs and share pancakes with me / and you did. You are so obliging. / No. Scratch that. You are so kind.
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The Mundane
Glittery, jittery raindrops. / An old, long lost friend turned cold. / Beckoning to move faster, and rush
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Logic and Reasoning
Turning all of the lights off and pretending like there's nothing due. / Conditionals, conjuncts, and disjuncts to name a few. / The condition is that my naked body has been revealed to you,
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Mountain Puke
Stick straight trees line hills, their arrangement phony / less than 5,000 feet in elevation but elevating humanity for over / sixty thousand.
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