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Marshall Messi Aug 2017
You haven’t
So we sing.
Off key
Out of tune
You and me
Swing dancing
To the sound of me
The sound of you
Fine, the sound of we
Swing dancing to our heart beat
There’s beauty here
Spin and dip
And our eyes lock
The microwave beeps
Marshall Messi Aug 2017
The hobo in the boxcar,
The love inside your heart.
Just a moment of shelter,
In search of a fresh start.
Did this have a meaning,
Or just along for the ride?
The armadillo built skin,
And The tear in his eye.
Marshall Messi Aug 2017
The forest is on fire
Not the actual forest
of course
But I mean
I can't  tell them apart
Regardless
Somehow
it caught fire
Marshall Messi Aug 2017
They have left their bodies
Im not sad for them
Im uncomfortable
But not forlorn
Children come watch
They are taught
Life it was not lost
Marshall Messi Aug 2017
Talking out loud for my feet that make no sound
Universally I could draw no crowd
She cries till my knees hit the ground
I set my liver on fire but learn from my father

Nothing you can do will ever matter
Marshall Messi Aug 2017
Particle or wave
Theory or fact
Love or lust
A list of things that don’t matter
In no particular order
Marshall Messi Aug 2017
A FRIEND TOLD ME A SECRET THAT i HAD PROMISED i WOULD KEEP.

“THAT RUSH TO LEAVE WORK, GET HOME BEFORE HER, ENJOY THE TIME ALONE.
THE *** UNCEREMONIOUSLY BEGGED FOR, **** WHAT IS A WARM CORPS.
STOP AT Taco Bell, USE CASH, UNBEARABLE TO SHARE A MEAL TOGETHER.
TO DRIVE IN SILENCE BECAUSE YOU’RE TOO ASHAMED TO SING OUT LOUD.
SHE NO LONGER HAS A MUSIC PREFERENCE, TOP 20 SUITS HER FINE.
I CAN NOT STAND TO SHARE A MOMENT WITH HER IT’S A FORCEFUL LIE.”

i TOLD HIM i’M A LIAR.
HE MELTED AT MY FEET.

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