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1/29/12
**I**
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You are
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beautiful--
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not because
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of your words
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or eye shadow,
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not because
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of the
5m
Feb 21, 2012
#7
You dwell in
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sorrow, and so
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I cannot understand
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You, because
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I want to
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live in mansions /
2m
Feb 22, 2012
Admissions
To the people
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who will reject
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me—I am not
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mad. I understand
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that there are
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writers better
3m
Mar 10, 2012
Archaeology
It is a peculiar
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thing reading a
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poem—how at first
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we stare at it like
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a clock—the symmetry
1m
Feb 22, 2012
As I Scrapbook
I am going
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to disappear--
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stay awake
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until 6 am
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when everyone
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begins.
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They will
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look f
2m
Feb 21, 2012
Bobby Pin
The minimalism of
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a bobby pin—only
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holding what it
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can—but no woman
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will underrate its
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ste
1m
Apr 3, 2012
Depression
Depression is not
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a dragon--it
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cannot be killed
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with a single
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thrust of an
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antidepressant
3m
Feb 21, 2012
False Prophet
We try to
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find you in
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our own
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way--see
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you in the
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demands we
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make and
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the sin
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of our
1m
Feb 21, 2012
Hungry
No words
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left--except
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for how, when
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I wrote this
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poem, you will
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be expecting
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something f
2m
Feb 21, 2012
La Vie en Rose
I can still
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see the tinge
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of grey in
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the blue sky
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above my head.
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Such is the
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nature of /
2m
Feb 21, 2012
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