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3 AM
Half an orange
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to help me sleep
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to help me not think of you
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to help me shut down my brain
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DM
You slide into my inbox
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and I roll my eyes
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thinking how our ancestors
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would roll in their grav
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DEAR MOTHER
Before you gave me a home,
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you gave me life.
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I was born to you, but
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before you gave me the wor
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BRAVE
Bravery
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is not about standing tall
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after you've climbed up
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the top of a mountain
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Bravery
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i
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PANCAKES
Sweat
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runs rivers down
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the planes of my face
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drip dropping
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to the asphalt
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and sizzling the
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PEANUT
My throat closes
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when I think of you now
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I loved you once—
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I wanted you every day—
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and part
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IMPERFECT
we learned in science class
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that pressure
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makes diamonds
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out of coal
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there is so much pressu
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DISAPPOINTED
sometimes I don’t want
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to look for silver linings
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or talk about timing
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how things work out
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a
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A STORY
Two
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soulmates become strangers—
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and that is how
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their fairytale ends.
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RUNAWAY
I want to be seen,
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but you're seeing me,
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so I hide.
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I want to be held,
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but you're holding me
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