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Today marked the first time I used a pipe cleaner
 For its actual purpose 
 And suddenly
 A simple action
 Turned momentous. I found the furred wire 
In an old box of crafts
 My mother had saved From elementary school projects. 
As I prodded the pipe
 With the cleaner that was only ever Supposed to be used To bend into bracelets, I couldn’t help thinking of you. I used to only find kisses 
 In cartoon form: Stickers attached To the backs of coloring books
. My greatest childhood love? Flipping on a flashlight to Devour my latest book Well past my bedtime. So clean, So pure, So bliss. So scrubbing away resin Feels akin to washing away sins Because like Adam and like Eve Somewhere along the line I lost my innocence.
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Oct 22, 2013
Oct 22, 2013 at 10:51 PM UTC
I named my pipe Hobbes
Today marked the first time I used a pipe cleaner
 For its actual purpose 
 And suddenly
 A simple action
 Turned momentous. I found the furred wire 
In an old box of crafts
 My mother had saved From elementary school projects. 
As I prodded the pipe
 With the cleaner that was only ever Supposed to be used To bend into bracelets, I couldn’t help thinking of you. I used to only find kisses 
 In cartoon form: Stickers attached To the backs of coloring books
. My greatest childhood love? Flipping on a flashlight to Devour my latest book Well past my bedtime. So clean, So pure, So bliss. So scrubbing away resin Feels akin to washing away sins Because like Adam and like Eve Somewhere along the line I lost my innocence.
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attemptatbeingartsy
American
Oct 22, 2013
Oct 22, 2013 at 10:51 PM UTC
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