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If language is a dead space ship between us if its a sleeping chicken instead of a casserole, if it's cold tea, a fake hug, if it gets lost in the corners of the ceilings and never reaches her heart if it can't ever remove the training wheels if it only knows dog days if it will always be a contender than we must start fires in the stars, with whatever we can and stop pretending we give a **** about accuracy or communication or being understood I don't want you to understand me! Who gives figs for stuff like that any more? I want you to set stars on fire in my name. I want you to carve the lines of my body into the bowline of a pirate ship I want you to not be able to leave the room tear the bread in half, don't return the library books don't ask what I think and don't stop asking me to dance anyway. Even if it's an old fashioned dilly. Even if I didn't wear your mother's dress, or ever can anything, even the beautiful tomatoes that covered the red clay. Ask me. No matter what I say.
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Jan 14, 2012
Jan 14, 2012 at 1:49 PM UTC
The Dilly
If language is a dead space ship between us if its a sleeping chicken instead of a casserole, if it's cold tea, a fake hug, if it gets lost in the corners of the ceilings and never reaches her heart if it can't ever remove the training wheels if it only knows dog days if it will always be a contender than we must start fires in the stars, with whatever we can and stop pretending we give a **** about accuracy or communication or being understood I don't want you to understand me! Who gives figs for stuff like that any more? I want you to set stars on fire in my name. I want you to carve the lines of my body into the bowline of a pirate ship I want you to not be able to leave the room tear the bread in half, don't return the library books don't ask what I think and don't stop asking me to dance anyway. Even if it's an old fashioned dilly. Even if I didn't wear your mother's dress, or ever can anything, even the beautiful tomatoes that covered the red clay. Ask me. No matter what I say.
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Jan 14, 2012
Jan 14, 2012 at 1:49 PM UTC
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