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Carli Lloyd is a BadassA Jersey girl came along / and I started to think about angles of yaw / needed to take flight,

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DessertYou 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, OdysseusLet’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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GreenIt’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 TaleYesterday, 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 ItWe did it pressed between bedsheets / when no one was home, / our hearts increasing our blood flow.

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HeroI wanted to be a superhero / so I put on a mask / but I could not see.

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MariannaLet’s turn the world upside down / and fall into the sky. / Take my hand and we’ll reach

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Doppler EffectDo 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 WorldYou have been potted in fear / but bloomed in adversity, / spreading seeds of hope.

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