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dear mom, dear dadi could've sworn i / outgrew what you taught me / but maybe it's true

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Jun 13, 2013

I wonderI wonder where / all the inspiration / and dreams

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Jun 13, 2013

UntitledI should have made you pay rent for the space I loaned you out in my heart. / "Please leave, you've overstayed your welcome and I haven't had a payment in months, / I let it go because you keep the room clean and the corners warm, but I heard you talking

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Jul 21, 2013

UntitledYou told me it was better this way, / I kept you up at night and / made you worry

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Jun 15, 2013

UntitledI'm really not okay with the way you look at me these days, / in fact / the absence of your look is more the right words

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Jun 13, 2013

whistling trainsmy memory isn’t the greatest, and i’ve lived in 5 different houses in the past 2 years out of mostly fear and “last resort.” / things are mostly black from being shoved into the corners and red from blaming it all on my carelessness and blue from him demanding he fix me with knuckles. / i don’t remember much of anything, but i could hear the trains call from each of those 5 houses and they called and called and called until i stopped believing in building up lives around comfort instead of satisfaction.

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Nov 15, 2013

You feel me?I always tell myself / "I'm going to bed early tonight" / but then I'm sitting at 5 in the morning

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Jun 13, 2013

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