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 Sep 2013 Hadley
Jimmy King
I wrote you love poems
In a pink sharpie because
I was falling in love with you,
And the more I listen to this song
(Sixty four times tonight),
I think that it isn’t fading
Like the chords she played
As I held you
And as we swayed

I wrote you love poems
In pink sharpie
Not thinking of you
But thinking instead
That the four shots of *****
Maybe made it okay
For me to kiss you

I wrote you love poems
In a pink sharpie
And then I threw the love poems
In the trash,
Not drunk enough to forget
That showing you
Might make you cry

Those love poems
That I wrote in pink sharpie
Came out of the trash this morning though
Because somehow
I thought a few tears
Might make everything better
 Sep 2013 Hadley
Jimmy King
I love you
Especially when I
Drink.
If you feel-
The same way-
Maybe shots should be
Called: good

And if you
(Love me)
Maybe we should
Kiss.

More often.
I wrote this poem while very very drunk last night at two in the morning. Immediately, I wrote in huge capital letters across the page: “Bad Writing”. And I threw it away.

But waking up there this morning, I wanted to see what I had written. So I dug through the empty bottles of ***** in the trash to find it.

Scrawled in pink sharpie, and going in and out of cursive, something about it struck me. I liked the simplicity, the honesty, the form. So here it is.
 Sep 2013 Hadley
Atlas
Suburbia
 Sep 2013 Hadley
Atlas
Suffocation is the lamest form of death
Weakness of the heart and body
I am sick and tired of you suppressing me
Wake up and smell the ashes

All these problems
Run deep within my bones
A crooked skeleton
Can never be mended

You are no surgeon
Just an arrogant fool
Who thinks they are superman
Or king of the world

I am breaking down your mind
Tearing it to pieces
And re-arranging it to fit my individuality
Stop suppressing me
I may be weak but I am growing
I originally wrote this for class. Its about the conflicts in Syria.

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