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It’s chocolate chip pancakes at 2:30am And empty mugs of coffee on my desk It’s adrenaline pumping through my chest And the whir of my refrigerator My focus is ping ponging between All of the holes in the wall Ignoring everything but the pages in front of me Watching everything through A double pained glass Realizing control is an illusion I fight to get closer and closer to the audience In my head Exaggeration stretching onward like salt-water taffy In the window Fingers slipping, sweat beading heavily above my upper lip Not being 100% sure of anything Who can blame me? I am lost in the swivels of society My face, as a ballerinas, when on pointe An elegant mask full of nothing Spinning and spinning Relying on the inner soles of my feet The clock slowly and forever slipping As I cannot reach the top of the bunny hole Too ******* stubborn to let any of the voices In my head tell me I should crawl away So, I look down and begin to read.
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 2:43 AM UTC
All Nighters (as told by a college student)
It’s chocolate chip pancakes at 2:30am And empty mugs of coffee on my desk It’s adrenaline pumping through my chest And the whir of my refrigerator My focus is ping ponging between All of the holes in the wall Ignoring everything but the pages in front of me Watching everything through A double pained glass Realizing control is an illusion I fight to get closer and closer to the audience In my head Exaggeration stretching onward like salt-water taffy In the window Fingers slipping, sweat beading heavily above my upper lip Not being 100% sure of anything Who can blame me? I am lost in the swivels of society My face, as a ballerinas, when on pointe An elegant mask full of nothing Spinning and spinning Relying on the inner soles of my feet The clock slowly and forever slipping As I cannot reach the top of the bunny hole Too ******* stubborn to let any of the voices In my head tell me I should crawl away So, I look down and begin to read.
rose-elizabeth
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 2:43 AM UTC
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