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In the kitchen you were trying to remember the words
While I was trying to remember how to act cool

Everyone was dancing and I felt old, at 18 something

You were sitting at the island, toasting with a Natty Light
While I raised my Diet Coke towards the candle wax splattered ceiling

Everyone drank and I felt old, at 18 something

You beamed your bandaid of a smile in my direction
While I locked my eyes with yours, silently accepting your first aid

And I felt old, at 18 something.
 Feb 2014 Jimmy King
Aetheria
All along,
there have been tiny whispers.
Between dissonance and chaos
they sing to us
the quietest of songs.
One,
there’s an ambulence outside my front door
And two,
my parents are watching the evening news.
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