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500 · Dec 2014
Dear Pvt. Abernathy
Allie King Dec 2014
Do you remember the year 1861? I was just ending my practicum of nursing, and you were being drafted to war. Oh, the day we met on that rain-washed Thursday while you were dodging the doctor from a scratched cornea, I admired you from across the medical tent.
Noticing me quickly, you half smiled. War was quickly setting into place, while you and I plunged head first into love.
We woke up to a conked labor union and our whole base blowing to hell.
My ears, my ears were engulfed with vibrations of cannon sounds.
Then and there, a bullet committed one's self to the center of my chest.
But you found me, slipping into utter darkness. You culled me back towards consciousness.
Flower, Flower, you said. And here I stand beside your plot in the necropolis, knowing my name could have been here just as easily as yours.
                                                                                           eternally yours,
                                                                                                     Your Flower.
414 · Dec 2014
petty habits.
Allie King Dec 2014
born this way?
Not I.
Having seen
what I have seen
Is the aftermath  
of me.

Hands shaking,
vision blurred,
What's my name?

What keeps me up,
will bring me down.
One bottle done,

my life's worth
to go.

— The End —