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anniston, alabama (what is death?)
what is death? a
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middle-aged man
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in a volvo, collecting
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payments and
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favors?
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i met him onc
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Dec 17, 2011
a ritual.
leave your clothes on the
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floor for now. there are still
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a few bittersweet seconds
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we've yet t
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Jul 21, 2011
as it was.
broken as it was,
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we had tried to
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fix it. you said i
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was your first like
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it disappointed you
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Dec 11, 2011
college years.
even if age meant more
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than a number, if it
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meant wisdom and
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common sense.
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i will come up /
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Jul 31, 2011
crossing some distance.
as we dissolve
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into the ages,
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i will only have
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these things
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to remember:
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your messy hair,
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Dec 11, 2011
digging in.
digging in,
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the way your teeth crawl.
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and latch onto my heart
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or my hipbone, when we
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do our
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Nov 6, 2011
empty room (day three).
i imagine you are
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here,
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even now,
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in this air.
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it's funny,
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being a child,
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how you conjur
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Oct 23, 2011
exhausted.
seeing yourself pressed naked
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against a window, remembering
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everything that you love
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is not sa
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Oct 2, 2011
hot mess.
he had
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been a
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pretty
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thing.
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i got my
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own to
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keep and
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he’s got
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his own.
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we ain’t /
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Apr 12, 2013
i've written too many poems.
i've written too many
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poems about how
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unhappy i am,
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or can be,
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or was.
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i've written too ma
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Jul 26, 2011
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