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r.i.p. childhood friend (2/13/11)
i remember us when we were young.
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we two little girls,
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not yet three,
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sitting on my front step
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tornado watch
outside,
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the world is doused in
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gold light.
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the woman across the street
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prunes her roses. /
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lovesickness: an ode to shalimar
i have spent the last three days humbled
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on hands and knees, relinquishing all of myself
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into th
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what it means to be a man
i'm a man, who
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carries his
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penis
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erect
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like a knife,
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ready to tear
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into the skin of
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wh
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"to the woman"
to the woman
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sucking on an unpeeled mango
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like a woman's teat:
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you squeeze out the fruit's jui
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"please don't leave me here"
i have forgotten
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how easy it is to love someone
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so much. you are
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miles and miles away and yet
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Valley Forge
nature is never quiet.
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even here, i am surrounded
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by the sound of cicadas dancing
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in the trees
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Em's Poem
i remember
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that one time when you lay in my bed, still,
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your head a mess of curls peeking from t
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insatiable
i found a new word
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to describe how i feel
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abt yr body,
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pressed up against mine.
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(you make me
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Untitled
When Tzitzi and I walk, we discover forgotten places.
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In the middle of the field, she
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twirls her
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