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Alexis Martin Nov 2013
I lose control of my temper
as easily as I lose bobby pins
I am an ongoing game of Jenga
unstable
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Alexis Martin Nov 2013
it has been more than a hundred days
since I gave myself a scar
but last week I paid a doctor
to give me three of them
(how oxymoronic of me)
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Alexis Martin Oct 2013
I should be better by now
I should be better by now
I should be better by now
(If I look in the mirror
and say it three times
it will come true, right?)
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Alexis Martin Oct 2013
I once dated a boy who
reminded me of my mother
they both loved their cigarettes
more than they ever loved me
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Alexis Martin Sep 2013
he is the kind of boy I want to write a book about
he always addresses me by my first and last name
as if I were someone of any sort of significance
he drinks and he drinks, and no one stops him
people flock to him just to listen to him tell
a painfully drawn-out joke that isn't even funny
but we still fall down laughing at the punch line
just because it was him in the spotlight
he walked up to a boy who he did not know
and he kissed him on the ******* mouth
and five minutes later he was crying on the boy
telling him about how he was sexually abused as a child
to say he is beautiful would be like saying
Mt Everest is just another hill on the horizon
I will never meet anyone like him again
but I do not fear I will forget him
he is the epitome unforgettable
he is the kind of boy I want to write a book about
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his name is E. G.
Alexis Martin Sep 2013
and just like the leaves
I, too
die in autumn
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Alexis Martin Aug 2013
I slammed my leg in the car door yesterday
and it has left me with a decent sized ****
all pretty and painted purple and blue
and for some reason I cannot stop touching it
the pain gives me a rush, or something
reminds me that I can feel things and get hurt
without having to do it to myself
(I haven't cut myself in eighteen days)
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