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Parker Burris Jan 2021
I knew you once
Your hair graciously unfurled
Your eyes as pure as an ocean's pearl
Yes, I definitely knew that girl
I knew her once

The grass brushing our eager fingertips
Our bodies warm from toes to hips
I swear I knew her that one night
When our eyes drifted above our Earthly plight
and watched the stars dance in innocent sight

For that girl from Round Rock I rarely get to see
revealed herself once, which was clear to me,
for that sliver of time the girl she wanted to be
became the girl I knew
Parker Burris Jan 2021
What a shame that thoughtless skulls shamble
across polluted, toxic land in pessimistic embrace,
that frightened individuals diminish themselves for a comforting blur

Can the individual only survive in the collective?
Is every person destined to betray themselves?
What a virulent lie.
Only such thoughtless banter can come from such a march
of empty skulls.

— The End —