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one day always dries the tongue always tense future tense i’m twenty three i’ve set out to find myself at least four times from here                                                   you can’t see what’s up there                                   though its walls are made of windows                                          i was up there once, and looked down i asked why misunderstanding perception and learned most of them looked out for the cityscape the lights sometimes. s was a dancer stretches and taps to silent rhythms knotted in her throat        in thought sometimes at night under lover’s sheets they could flow from her lips sweet hyperboles and desperate understatements and her shoulders would release too soon she was dead asleep t the perfect audience he was multilingual even with small phrases and s thought:: please please think bigger than you and me t:: i want shelves full (with all of your words) and we’ll cover the living       walls with framed cyprus and stone it’s ok it’s ok it’s ok today we are twenty three i can feel your breath on my face i am not domestic every place but home inspires me a time someday for us they’ve flourished snatched in november like everything gone tell me the glory days are not over flow is it possible to be blown by what i thought could never happen     could never have never be and remorse for decaying dreams                                                                             a bibliothèque   a bibliothek                                                                  its towers pierce through foliage                                                                                         the center caved in                                                                 only the letters b  i  b  l  o remain                                                              above the threshold    and some                                                                            pages grip tight to the walls                                                                             insects inhibit the rest        we stretch softer legs like fossilized rock and feel shame in the pride once taken in *one day   i will give up everything dance on tuesday nights      worship the sanctity of table talk     early mornings envisioning the thousands of events this corner no doubt witnessed  trek øyangen and for the first time fall so in love with snow and tomorrow feel that same ecstasy for the aegean ultraviolet a* of course there is not   that would be too **** logical we fill to the brim spill into the other the first time:: walking conciliation there were at least 8 others  the nervous ha ha release of the shoulders a timid forte   something castle passageway and cruel majesty if i did..no memory of any other exists submerged in the cascade i could tell                           what was happening it was your turn finally                   adventure bestowed                            when i shouted                                                           italian for ...i know what you mean other times it’s boiling steam clenching the small throat of the archways screaming like the baby in the room hardly air still dare not breathe at burned hands only wanting to help me october times:                                                       i wander off the page                                                                   its warm here                                                      homesick rising   not                                         for a house or manmade landscape                                                               i sunk my teeth                                                        into a chance to hold                                                         a beloved memory                                                           were you pouring                                                                  into me or i                                                                                  you —suddenly location was absent only caffeinated confusion words were never difficult now used all wrong forte timida you casually drank your pour over as i searched for a changed thing s to t:: how is it that we love so many and need so much more and still have room for each other? t:: i’ve built you a sanctuary west coast luxury east coast 1920 where surrounding trees are ablaze you will not burn in a city whose lights have no power over stars i’ve wrought an iron balcony for kissing overlooking a cobbled courtyard for mornings music go there in the meantime when you can’t remember i’ll visit when you want me my thighs carry everything ice cracks cold sweat   ears ringing rejection   history    home moving   not moving defense precision par excellence capablebutyoucutmylegsfromunderme flying contraption leaving that behind fast evanesce a pounding like cutting but breathing normally s to t:: only you let me bleed the hard- covers come falling a fantastic mess the balcony magnifique on fire
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Dec 13, 2015
Dec 13, 2015 at 11:27 AM UTC
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one day always dries the tongue always tense future tense i’m twenty three i’ve set out to find myself at least four times from here                                                   you can’t see what’s up there                                   though its walls are made of windows                                          i was up there once, and looked down i asked why misunderstanding perception and learned most of them looked out for the cityscape the lights sometimes. s was a dancer stretches and taps to silent rhythms knotted in her throat        in thought sometimes at night under lover’s sheets they could flow from her lips sweet hyperboles and desperate understatements and her shoulders would release too soon she was dead asleep t the perfect audience he was multilingual even with small phrases and s thought:: please please think bigger than you and me t:: i want shelves full (with all of your words) and we’ll cover the living       walls with framed cyprus and stone it’s ok it’s ok it’s ok today we are twenty three i can feel your breath on my face i am not domestic every place but home inspires me a time someday for us they’ve flourished snatched in november like everything gone tell me the glory days are not over flow is it possible to be blown by what i thought could never happen     could never have never be and remorse for decaying dreams                                                                             a bibliothèque   a bibliothek                                                                  its towers pierce through foliage                                                                                         the center caved in                                                                 only the letters b  i  b  l  o remain                                                              above the threshold    and some                                                                            pages grip tight to the walls                                                                             insects inhibit the rest        we stretch softer legs like fossilized rock and feel shame in the pride once taken in *one day   i will give up everything dance on tuesday nights      worship the sanctity of table talk     early mornings envisioning the thousands of events this corner no doubt witnessed  trek øyangen and for the first time fall so in love with snow and tomorrow feel that same ecstasy for the aegean ultraviolet a* of course there is not   that would be too **** logical we fill to the brim spill into the other the first time:: walking conciliation there were at least 8 others  the nervous ha ha release of the shoulders a timid forte   something castle passageway and cruel majesty if i did..no memory of any other exists submerged in the cascade i could tell                           what was happening it was your turn finally                   adventure bestowed                            when i shouted                                                           italian for ...i know what you mean other times it’s boiling steam clenching the small throat of the archways screaming like the baby in the room hardly air still dare not breathe at burned hands only wanting to help me october times:                                                       i wander off the page                                                                   its warm here                                                      homesick rising   not                                         for a house or manmade landscape                                                               i sunk my teeth                                                        into a chance to hold                                                         a beloved memory                                                           were you pouring                                                                  into me or i                                                                                  you —suddenly location was absent only caffeinated confusion words were never difficult now used all wrong forte timida you casually drank your pour over as i searched for a changed thing s to t:: how is it that we love so many and need so much more and still have room for each other? t:: i’ve built you a sanctuary west coast luxury east coast 1920 where surrounding trees are ablaze you will not burn in a city whose lights have no power over stars i’ve wrought an iron balcony for kissing overlooking a cobbled courtyard for mornings music go there in the meantime when you can’t remember i’ll visit when you want me my thighs carry everything ice cracks cold sweat   ears ringing rejection   history    home moving   not moving defense precision par excellence capablebutyoucutmylegsfromunderme flying contraption leaving that behind fast evanesce a pounding like cutting but breathing normally s to t:: only you let me bleed the hard- covers come falling a fantastic mess the balcony magnifique on fire
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Dec 13, 2015 at 11:27 AM UTC
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