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Straining
I've taken the beatings
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and felt the blows
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the one-two
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the fester of bullshit
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seeping into m
2m
Nov 4, 2017
Enabled
half-hearted sentiments sting the unwritten prose
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bleeding through splayed fingers
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and washing r
2m
Aug 29, 2017
Her
there were scriptures inside your hands
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turning pages into history
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I was the last thought
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hopi
1m
Aug 2, 2017
Opportune
glimpses of some other life
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enter the peripheral
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planting thoughts behind closed eyes
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waiting
1m
Jul 19, 2017
7/4/17
stories elevated by absolutes
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where characters throw themselves into embarrassment
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and those lis
1m
Jul 16, 2017
Weighty
streets close off
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telling work to go home
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its role is finished today
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white dresses dance in ci
2m
Jul 8, 2017
Dialect
conversations lift from unnamed tongues
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flirting with a language you don’t speak
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the striving ce
1m
May 29, 2017
twentysomething
leaving attitudes
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in the same pocket as ambition
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where the loneliest secrets
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want to be free f
2m
May 9, 2017
Window of We
she promises it hasn’t always been this way
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the touch which turned from kind to cruel
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stripping
2m
May 1, 2017
Era
the corners of your wallet
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reveal fortune hasn’t found its time
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sinking below the ocean of oppor
2m
Apr 19, 2017
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