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When I write
When I write,
It's not so he can read it.
It's not for my friends to read
It's not for my teachers
My acquaintances
My enemies.
I don't want
People to see me.
I don't want
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If we do this
"You realize
If we do this
It's like going back in time,"
I tell you,
I tell you,
Over and over and over.
You don't listen.
You've never listened.
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Stuck
I look at him.
He looks at me.
We're both holding back laughter.
The elevator doors won't open,
And worse than that,
We're stuck in here
With a lot of other
Random
People
Who we don't know!
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Into the meadow
Into the meadow we run together,
Faces shining in the sun.
Beneath the starry sky we wander,
'Til what we seek is done.
We play and we laugh
We joke and we splash
In the waters of a shimmering lake.
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Hello
We went to Montreal recently
On a school trip for our band.
We almost didn't have a performance to go watch
Or a friendship concert with another school
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Inescapable
The solidity of the darkness
The ever-cascading waters
Sharp and dangerous, altogether hardly enticing
Await me wherever I wander within my mind.
Loves
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Music
Growing up, music was always a constant.
Then, it meant very little to me.
It was only background noise, but always there.
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Teenagers
We lie in bed with our arms around ourselves,
cradling the mangled bodies of children
who had the stars squeezed out of their eyes so that, still shining, they fell
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Shattering
Will we ever stop
Forming gaps for young children to fall through,
Teetering on the edge– –swinging their legs.
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Somebody
Everybody has somebody — the person who is their everything and whom they never want to go without.
It could be for a long time or a short time, a moment or an age.
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Impression, Classroom.
Shoes worn by angry feet scuff up mirror floors,
and white paper faces with blue lines
look down to see nothing reflected back
but searing lights and
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The tree that defines me
When I was little, we lived in Philly. Seven hours from where we live now, eight counting the time allotted for rest stops. And a little ways down the sidewalk from our house was this tree.