Posts
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Spray-Tanned
Why did you have to hurt us?
Again?
Again?
‘Cause when I was young
there was a chance
a chance
to be free
a chance to see a woman be
something new and
different
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Going
I have a plan
I am
I am
I’m running so fast
going nowhere
just going
forever
I won’t stop to catch my breath
I won’t stop for life or death
I’ll keep going
going
going
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Inert
I know
pitiful laughs and lies
and joys and cries
and love and skies
that are most breathtakingly
blue
I know
the good and sad
the ugly and bad
the boiling mad
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A Bird for an Hour
If I were
a bird for an hour,
what fate
might await
me?
Would I go so high,
be one with the sky
or
would I be slain
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Alive
Make sure to remind
yourself that you’re
alive
because
Sometimes
life
moves
so
fast
you
forget
how
to
breathe
Sometimes
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“You’re Going Places”
They all told me
that I was bright
and that I shined
like a star
All stars burn out eventually,
then there’s nothing left but
disappointment
You held me so high
Loves
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My Little Sister
My little sister
Only 7 years old
Innocent
And yet strong willed
She will grow up
In this country
With this president
This person who calls himself
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Red (white and blue)
Red:
The color of blood
The color of the hearts that are going to be ripped out
ripped out and thrown aside.
Red,
the color this country became
as of... yesterday?
White:
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My Pines
The backyard of my childhood home held the old pine trees that had whispered melodies in my ears throughout my sweet infancy. Their wise branches reached out to me with empathetic arms, holding me until I had fallen seamlessly asleep.
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Snooze
I got nothing.
But this.
It’s 1 AM.
But the mind’s at work.
Ideas come and go.
Sleep sweeps away all of that.
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Deafening Silence
It’s over
The storm has passed
But there’s a deafening silence in the air
The excruciating silence
Of closure
The pain that only comes
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A Flatlander's Fears for the Future
I remember my first day in the Green Mountain State
Astonishingly lush with trees filling the sky
Some locals called us flatlanders--we laughed