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Queen
We call her name like she's the queen.
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Lips quiver with understated pleas.
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So this is what "your
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Vitality
Why did she leave at a time like this?
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Why does her house feel so empty?
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Because it is.
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How wi
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Stuck
Stuck
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In the soft mud, exasperated
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Expecting escape but never fighting
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From the forest came ch
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Home
Run through the rubble,
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Float on your cigarette breath.
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Keep me; I am home.
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Laundry
I can tell I'm depressed
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When I don't take the laundry
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Out of the washer,
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Where it has been cl
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every man, no man
one two three with fire
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heavy with your memory
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thick silhouettes peer
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&
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the sax next door si
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Alive
The gentle lines of the coarsest neck
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Where the vitals fall in line,
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Where breath is held so res
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Hypethral
Inside my four walls,
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Not much is seen.
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The same people day after day,
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Their actions always pr
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For the Future
Conversations with myself
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Remnants of
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Fleeting words
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Leaving me pummeled
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In their tracks.
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Two Cigarettes
Two cigarettes
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Because one is not enough
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To forget the void
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Nor discover the luxury.
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One cig
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