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tug of war
It's a long, thin and twisted, smooth rope,
One I could wrap around the skin on my wrists,
And keep myself tied to one place.
Because when I'm with you, I'm free,
Chasing the world without a finish line
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studying the stars
You're chasing after me again,
Like I'm a shooting star and I can hear your footsteps
before I see your face pasted
with grins and smiles, I don't understand.
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Fitting In
Dinner is silent again,
My dad was fired,
And my mom’s tired from working late again,
And I’m trying not to be sick from it all.
My sister’s talking about poverty
And how educators get the scraps,
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could we pretend?
could you just pretend for a second,
a minute, a moment, an ounce
of time that you feel the same as i do,
instead of running out the room
like Cerberus was on your heels
and i was death, herself.
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hey friends
when were you going to tell me
that we were never really friends?
and instead you pretended you liked me
so you could laugh at my tear-stricken face.
all those nights I opened up like you cared
Loves
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A Gull’s Corpse
It's lying on its back
on a large flat rock,
exposed to the grayish sky like an offering
to some odd god.
There's a hole in its breast,
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figures of the night
we sat and imagined fireflies
flitting between the tops of the RVs
as the sun disappeared into muggy,
illicit sludge. we realized we both liked
the sticky-sweet taste of summer
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The Fall
I
saw
you
and you
saw
me
but what
we'd
do
I couldn't conceive.
I start
to
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I ask a lot of things
Why stay, when to breathe polluted air is to condemn your lungs?
Why stay, when to walk on hot coals ensures that every next step will burn?
If we, as people, seek water,
why do we always land at a mirage?
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memory
The building stands tall in the gleaming sunlight.
You haven’t been here in years.
You walk in, not quite sure what to expect,
Everything looks weirdly the exact same,
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Different at Night
Things sound different at midnight,
the dark is so much lighter,
the noises so much louder.
Every creak causes a jump.