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Bent-backed, except when you remember that you're not. Musty like a neglected closet, just this side of sour milk. The tang of rusted wire guitar strings. A blank canvas. Baby shampoo, no tears. But you smell like those too. Ash and gray, hair the middle of light to dark, you straddle the dusky twilight, a color meant for no one. Open to the world, every emotion passing through your eyes, golden clear, a citrus shock trespass into my head, until your doors close, eyes like mud. Lemon Meringue.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 1:02 AM UTC
You're
Bent-backed, except when you remember that you're not. Musty like a neglected closet, just this side of sour milk. The tang of rusted wire guitar strings. A blank canvas. Baby shampoo, no tears. But you smell like those too. Ash and gray, hair the middle of light to dark, you straddle the dusky twilight, a color meant for no one. Open to the world, every emotion passing through your eyes, golden clear, a citrus shock trespass into my head, until your doors close, eyes like mud. Lemon Meringue.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 1:02 AM UTC
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