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Survival of the Fittest

by products-of-insomnia

How do poets survive? Others drink way too much alcohol to drown their demons while others write naked others try to hide behind their words and metaphors others just try not to put their heads inside their ovens while some simply endure the pain of writing the things they wish they could just tell Me? I just drink a lot of coffee and trying not to wake up at 4 AM blocking the bitter realization that all I ever did was write letters to you and you will never write me back
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Sep 13, 2014
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My alarm says go back to sleep.

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#love#poetry#life#relationships#people#survival#me#poets#movingon#stuff
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