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You only live once
If the winter storm is scary, cold, but you’d rather deal with hail Than let others measure you by the ruler, weigh you by the scale And tell you what you should have done, or which way your river must flow. Cold advice, reheated twice, so that…
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An honest question
Summer rain pelting pebbles of water on the sidewalk like a loud lullaby as sleepless as you. Hundreds of miles above the hills cameras capture painted photographs vibrant views of the world below, but a selfie reeks of loneliness. Is…
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From me, to you
The sky, usually on fire, Was a dull blue at sunset today- The dull blue which outlined the imposing skyscrapers; The dull blue of the throbbing ache To the left of your ribcage, In your chest cavity- Intangible, figurative, But as real as a…
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To crochet with notes
Write for me a song that you can sing behind blue curtains and waving wind to the tossing kite and lonely string, when the silvered sky cracks, caving in. Sing me a song that you know will stay- blotchy inked, water washed yesterday may try ve…
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Troubled waters
Troubled waters tape and china taped china can still float tired and tilted, for one heart bled a little too much while the other just watched the show….
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I know I’ll be fine
I know I’ll be fine in a day or two, But I can’t be fine today. I will stay up all night just so my eyes Hold on to yesterday. Such euphoric happiness, and such pain, Coursing through the human vein; The silver lining of the clouds Poured down…
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Frozen
The cocoons break open. The butterflies sit outside, drying their wings of teal and black with white dots of various sizes, like accidental spray paint on a five year old’s first attempt. They will soon take flight, you can feel that, in the…
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Lighting the lamp
Lighting a lamp is an easy task, ere which you mustn’t forget to ask, with a knock on the brass, on the side, politely, if anyone’s inside. For all you know, there may be a bug, cozying up upon its warm rug, inside the lamp, which it calls it…
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Seventeen Minus One
Sixteen seemed to be a summer fling Between dopamine, gigantic dreams, In front of that cubic computer That almost knew what floppies were. The adrenaline rush, never better Than when I got my bright red letter. Confused between what the world…
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Inconvenient gratitude
We gel rather incongruously, like mint in smoke, chewing gum after two burnt cigarettes. Refreshing. intoxicating. A study in chaos. We gel rather inconveniently, like that half centimetre between your heel and the shoe, which lets the fancy…