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to myself. before.
you will be happy again.
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you will have dry eyes for months on end,
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walk the beach in the evening
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Apr 21, 2013
I want to love you, but I can't do it today
I watched the city disappear, then
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watched it re-emerge from the night sky,
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dabs of watercolor o
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Apr 8, 2013
we are pilots
when did I wake up okay?
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when did the sun stop hurting my eyes
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when did I start being able to ge
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Apr 8, 2013
swing low
the world feels lighter,
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a shade of grey, floating, airy;
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in december I swear the world was deep
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Jan 28, 2013
I can walk for miles, miles, miles
I have been bright, hovering for weeks with the edges of ovals I so narrowly believed to be bicycle
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Jan 14, 2013
to adventure
I was magnificent.
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I sat there in the dark, alone, and I clutched christmas lights to my chest. /
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Dec 28, 2012
dawn of city lights
the sinking sun keeps calling
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poetic bones and walgreens; three am
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flinging glass, nightmares, e
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Nov 25, 2012
how could I kill a man
last night scraped painstakingly
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from the fissures in my brain
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scraped like ink from wood-latch
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Nov 25, 2012
perhaps I already do
I keep writing the spaces between heartbeats,
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I keep touching the things that aren't real,
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I kee
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Nov 25, 2012
brighter.
one o'clock in the morning
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switch switch clack clack
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there's a train and it's streaming swirls o
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Nov 25, 2012
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