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fresh air
inseparable,
like twists of a candy cane
unacceptable,
how we both became insane
undeniable,
each time I saw you I’d grin
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chameleon
she’s a chameleon
always pleasing someone
changing herself for them
new colors to become
she’s a good shapeshifter
born to be a drifter
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paranoia
they’ve been together for ten years
and he hasn’t taken a knee
they’re both consumed with their fears
scared of something no one can see
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a letter
just last week I told you
I worried about us
you said, “you don’t have to,
you’ll always be enough”
no one else is like me
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unfinished
the pencil in my hand rolls across my scars
from when I smashed the window in a rage
two weeks ago, we’d laid beneath the bright stars;
he said he’d love me until our old age.
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Cordelia
Cordelia was twenty-eight
working and attending school
when an unfair twist of fate
halted her busy schedule
as a waitress in Illinois