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earthquakes cause tsunamis

i woke up today to the world

drinking tea and chaos,

as if nothing has changed,

like the ground hasn't collided and

caused the water to rise or the

fact that the government just may not

care about us at all.

the debt we are in could last us a century,

and i'm not talkin' about the government funds,

i'm worried about how luck is never on our side

of the dead green grass but,

we can get through this.

i've never been one for religion, so

when i catch myself saying that i have faith,

it's feels like marbles in my mouth and

the glass is melting to form

a sculpture of how we could be

little or we could be big,

but only time will tell in between the seconds,

and that moment we know which we are,

i'll turn to you and tell you if the faith

is still crashing on my bad days

and i hope you'll stick around if it isn't.

if you don't stay, the earth may quake

close to a 8.5 and it will go down in history of

how difficult it was to piece back

my grounds.

so even if the world stops spinning,

i'll still spin it for you like when you used to pay

for my admission and walk me to my doorstep,

like there was nothing more dangerous

than leaving traces of my footsteps across my dewy

lawn.

i'll spin it like the beer bottle with the foam

settling at the bottom, just so i can see

something fluid move because

sometimes being fluid is more beautiful than being

solid since solidity only has one shape.

so once you tell me that you won't be there to spin my bad days

to good,

i'll leave you alone, like i would the dead

carcass of the deer we hit two days ago in your rusty

volvo but don't be surprised if you ever

wonder if i dream about you

and when the answer is

only every once

in a

while.

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danielle-jones
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Published
Mar 11, 2011
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© Danielle Jones 2011

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