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Carli Lloyd is a Badass
A Jersey girl came along / and I started to think about angles of yaw / needed to take flight,
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Dessert
You signal with your eyes, permission. It’s a look that twists my heart. My epinephrine increases, inhibits insulin secretion and my blood glucose rises. Hands roam mountains and valleys. Hips become handles. We scatter clothes across the room. Our thoughts are scattered. Down isn’t the floor, it’s the opposite of high. My breath is caught between my lungs and your tongue, darting across mine. Pain flirts with pleasure. Whoever said lips taste like strawberries is wrong. They taste much better than that.
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Take note, Odysseus
Let’s go on an odyssey, an epic / we’ll never forget. Let’s turn the world upside down, / fall into the sky, fly at light speed
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Green
It’s a free country, whose prices are skyrocketing, / skyrocketing with the number of secrets. / Pick up pamphlets proclaiming promises,
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Time's Tale
Yesterday, I turned twenty-one. / I was born in July, but I can smell the holly of winter / and graduation is a block away.
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We Did It
We did it pressed between bedsheets / when no one was home, / our hearts increasing our blood flow.
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Hero
I wanted to be a superhero / so I put on a mask / but I could not see.
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Marianna
Let’s turn the world upside down / and fall into the sky. / Take my hand and we’ll reach
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Doppler Effect
Do the tiny footsteps of ants make a sound? / When we concave their hills I can’t hear a sound. / Hands, wrapped around your fingers. Eyes
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Oh, Brave New World
You have been potted in fear / but bloomed in adversity, / spreading seeds of hope.
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