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 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
brooke
Chris.
 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
brooke
for once I choose
to dip us (then) in
honey, steep us in
jasmine, I am not
sugar-coating, just
preserving, just for
once forgetting that
bad happens, that
good can stay if you
let
it.
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
Written to Tetsukazu no Kanjou
 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
brooke
the wife at the
house over, you
can hear her laugh
over her baby radishes
and the sound of water
on wet soil, soft talking
two stories up, i hear her
and she tells her husband
look, look what we have
look, look what we have.
look, look what we have.
I want to be as happy
as she is
someday
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
You force yourself to stay within the lines you didn't draw
I'd ask you why you're doing this but cannot be so raw
Instead I'll go along with all the choices that you make
And put the pressure somewhere else until it is too late
So when the ticks and talks become a voice you do not hear
Remember then that spoken time has said, the end is near
Asylum is for everyone but not for all the same
I think you understand it too, you see the patterns change
Directly interfering with the process undergone
Will neither make it easier nor any bit less long
I wonder who I'm talking to or what I even say
I've stepped away from every sense of sense I ever made
 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
marina
we have listened to the
same three albums over
fifty times, and i am
running out of way to
avoid telling you the truth
[i love you, i love you, i love you]
every kingdom, the lumineers, siberia acoustic
 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
brooke
I am.
 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
brooke
the flint
and the
fire, all
together
(c) Brooke Otto 2014.
 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
Megan Grace
i
a  m
positive
that   you
are  made  of
s  t   a  r   d  u  s  t
and  water  balloons,
oil  pastels  and  the
collecti­on          of
settled     sugar
at             the
b o t  t o m
of      my
c u p s
o     f
t e a
 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
brooke
at one point he
told me he was
born to love me
never having heard

that song by secondhand serenade

I don't know the
truth about most
things anymore.
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
Tom McCone
in gentle circles, a single
blade amidst the field inside
slowly ascends: twists salt
earth, a mutable red-black
tree, an unbalanced myself.

a place we swayed trickles
back. i set foot, with
wish to waste enough
time to forget ever
opening towards the
light spilling out behind
your eyes.

misery sinks my teeth
into her arm, slows and
grasps
cohort as i take
shelter. as i find
metric in my own chest.
as i **** up, grow tired,
stop. watch shadows on
the ceiling. i could float
away. i could float away.
i could float away. i could
float away.

if only i wanted to.
forgetting nothing
 Apr 2014 Marie-Niege
hkr
i am heavy
[with ugly emotion
that nobody
deserves.]
so i keep it to myself.
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