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fragments of poems I'll never write about youWalking on eggshells but the eggshells are made of glass / Could you tell the difference between my lips and the bottles'? / I tell people I barely know that you're my soulmate

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Jan 22

I don't have it in meI want you to imagine fixing a watch, all the tiny little parts / And I want you to imagine fixing a watch with broken hands / An overly involved metaphor for the idea that you can’t fix someone else when you yourself are broken

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Sep 17, 2018

incoherentMy hands have a mind of their own / Melt down all my doubts to fill molds of jail cell bars / Of locks with no keys

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Apr 8, 2018

it's backAsk me about my past / I'll unstitch every seam / Tear everything out and lay it all on the table

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Feb 15, 2018

Bird Cage CosmonautOne small step for literally fucking anyone else / One large step for you / The depressed

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Aug 28, 2017

chasing v odka with popsiclesYou told him how hands on your body make you feel like you're 18 again / The word no coating you like tissue paper armor in a thunderstorm / You told him how you stayed

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May 2, 2017

superstitiousI'm a broken mirror / Twenty years bad luck / And counting

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Sep 26, 2016

The Little BookwormShe carefully creased the corners, / Bookmarking her favorite parts. / Because the words on those pages

Apr 15, 2016

nothing good happens after 2amI've filled the hole you left with empty kisses from boys whose lips taste like ash trays and whose bodies aren't yours but fill the space you left in my bed anyway / I've filled it with smoke as I sat on the edge of a bathtub, bowl in hand listening to a stranger talk about how he still calls his dead mother by mistake sometimes / I've filled it with recipes of sleeping pills swallowed down with cough syrup and vodka and chased with a flat Diet Coke I might've opened last week

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Feb 1, 2016

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