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 Apr 2014 gd
peurdelavie
(18w)
 Apr 2014 gd
peurdelavie
you said
"goodnight, for now"
and i was foolish enough
to believe that 'for now'
meant you'd stay.
 Apr 2014 gd
brooke
Mean-spirited.
 Apr 2014 gd
brooke
i hope on
a good day
you find a
strand of
my hair
still woven
into your
books.
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
and I hope, this, I hope, this, gets to you.
 Apr 2014 gd
Coral
don't**
ask me what i think about poetry
i never think about poetry
but
sometimes more often than others
words will creep into my skull
and dance around my soul
they'll bicker with each other
and grasp at each others hair
until i am forced to release them
from the damp of my fingertips
and exhale them
like the dense clouds of smoke
that they are
 Apr 2014 gd
Emma
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 Apr 2014 gd
Emma
we are all lost
blindly searching for meaning
in a life where meaning is
a nine-five job,
a house left alone,
an engine for mobility

does the search ever end?

is being lost
searching
hopelessly for death?

is being lost
the potential
to live?

or
really just that?
misplaced?

is it anything at all?
or
n o t h i n g .

is it an escape?

is searching for meaning
being astray?
being found?
or created?

created from the pursuit,
from the struggle,
*from the meaningless
glide from moment
to moment
knowing only
that death is certain
 Apr 2014 gd
brooke
Try to.
 Apr 2014 gd
brooke
there was a rising
from something
inside my body
that wasn't quite
inside my body
and echoed out
your standards are too high
and no. one. will. ever. meet. them.
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
 Apr 2014 gd
brooke
Carrot Flowers.
 Apr 2014 gd
brooke
at a point during
the neutral milk
hotel concert, I
wasn't there at
all, I was searching
the crowd for your
a face, any face that
looked like yours.
(c) Brooke Otto 2014

this isn't as sad as it sounds.
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