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Samm Marie Aug 2016
I'm going to start
Tossing your bags into the streets
Each time your memory burns
I'm going light up
And toss one back
Every time I think your name
I'm ready to put a boot
In your ***
My dear friend, Toby,
The one that you hate,
Told me it's the American way
So are you leaving yet?
Because if not
I'll file for restraint
Leave me alone
Otherwise, like Earl,
You'll have to die
Seeing as how emotional abuse
Ain't no way to treat a lady
You claim to love
Samm Marie Aug 2016
Said the Ceiling Fan to the Dark Room,
"Where is it you go
When the world awakens?"

"I search for myself
In oblivion,"
Whispered the Dark Room

The Ceiling Fan thought this peculiar
"Dark Room," began Ceiling Fan
"What is oblivion?"

The Dark Room giggled,
Forgetting Ceiling Fan's youth
"Oblivion, sweet child, is
Unknown and terrifyingly
Brilliant"

Mimicking Rabbits and Skin Horses
Ceiling Fan questions
The possible pain

Dark Room replies softly
"Only sometimes"
Samm Marie Aug 2016
Yessiree I did I did
My fingers pressed the buttons
2
5
3
My throat became sandpaper
My stomach felt
That Palmer Lake queasy
5
1
4
Cancel
Because I'm strong sometimes too
  Aug 2016 Samm Marie
Chameleon
There's something dangerous about listening to old love songs in the wee hours of the morning,
when you have nothing to do but remember.
These songs changed my life, and were there when I fell for him.
This odd, handsome, frightening guy that became a part of my life, so unexpectedly.
I'll never forget how nice he has been to me, and how he would stay up all night, drinking, and smoking and just being my companion when I needed one most.
I never meant to fall in love, either did he.
We never said it, it was just understood.
Whatever it was, was beautiful. And helpful.
I have never grown so much in just a few months.
Samm Marie Aug 2016
I am a library book
Dog eared and worn
Quite a few pages spilled on
Torn
I sit in the bottom of a book bag
Overdue
Waiting for you to remember
You haven't yet returned me
The fines are a mile long
You started to read
But the blurb was misleading
You forgot that you ever checked me out
And so much damage has been done
What with you tossing in other books
Spilling chips
Folding my pages
Leaking ink
Darlin' you deserve to have
Your library card revoked
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