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maw
i didn't want to be back here
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how come im back here
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you were the one that brought me here in the
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Jul 4, 2022
lie stranger (light friend #2)
today has been so long and so tiring; i think i should lie
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down. the anxiety has me feeling like a
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Apr 10, 2021
Burn
I'm the kind of girl who burns through guy friends like rubber on tiers, like sulfur on matches, lik
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Mar 1, 2021
Prayer
"Oh God," she says, hands clasped together, fingers entwined, knees bent.
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He doesn't answer; /he d
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Mar 1, 2021
Remnants
Every little move, every soft step, every breath I take,
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I am reminded of him; I am reminded that
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Mar 1, 2021
Sonnet For Meditation
I await him, naked, head bowed, kneeling
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With leather and rope he binds me tightly
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Deft hands’ f
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Mar 1, 2021
Jazz
Is it too much to ask that we
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just lay around with our
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cigarettes and coffee and jazz
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and just
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Mar 1, 2021
Reincarnation
Resurrected, I arose
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for mornings thick with lust
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and love and caffeine and naked kisses
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And a
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Mar 1, 2021
Small Death
The French call an orgasm
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“la petite mort” or “the little death”
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tango with lips, teeth, and ton
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Mar 1, 2021
Crescent
once I was a waning crescent, pale and thin—incomplete
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a silver sliver of light peeking unwanted i
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Mar 1, 2021
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