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12:53:34lying on my back in the warmth of too early southern california morning / in a too empty bed that smells like memories / breathing slowly as I watch the moonbeams shine through the blinds
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Jul 31, 2012
a lackit's hard to believe / that the world could keep spinning without you in it / but it's spun completely on it's axis
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Oct 6, 2013
An offeringI wish I could sing for you / But my voice is as rough as the canvas I paint on / And my medium has never been vocals
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Nov 26, 2012
a poem about lovewhen i met my first boyfriend i was a gaping wound / my personality was the hole my father spent years drilling into my chest / he was dating two other girls at the time
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Oct 24, 2013
A strong and fragile thingHow astonishing / That something as small and feeble as the human heart / Encased in a cage of muscles and bones for its own safety
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Apr 18, 2013
bloomingI imagine the Egyptians felt about deaths of loved ones a lot like we think about autumn / It isn’t a passing / It isn’t a loss
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Feb 18, 2012
butterfly stitchesi have a weird relationship with death / when i was 15 months old i was diagnosed with a rare cancer of the retina / and when i tell people they always say the same thing
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Dec 3, 2014
cagesThere is a cage around my heart / Made of rose thorns / They do not touch the muscle
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Feb 11, 2014
college is really fucking hardit's never going to be easy to be four hundred miles from the first home you ever knew / and it's going to get harder when your mother gets diagnosed with cancer / and her best friend is dead and can't take care of her
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Nov 26, 2012
Coordinating LuggageTell me you're empty all you want / That all that's inside you is a darkened void / I won't believe a word you say
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Mar 17, 2013
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