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why i petted the dog on the side of the road on a particularly humid texas afternoon
because i was exhausted and cranky
and it was too late in the week to be walking home
and because texas was threatening to rain all over us, especially me. -
Buttons
I remember you. We remember you.
You used to come in every weekend with your mother and brother when you were younger. They made you seem like you were made for softer things. They used to pretend like they were made for softer things too. -
Prescription
And I looked, and there was this ugly brown girl asking for some less brownness, perhaps.
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Daedalus
I hate that
Icarus gets all the ink.
His hubris penned down for eternity while
His scorched flesh watched on.But never is it Daedalus.
Daedalus, who waits.
The waiting Daedalus. -
On Misdiagnosis
when you go to the emergency room
they ask you to rate your pain on a scale of one to ten -
Those White High Tops Whose Laces I Never Tie
When I was 12,
My favorite pair of shoes
Also happened to be my only pair of shoes.
Loves
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on the grammatically incorrect sign shown to us in english class
-- free would,
& all the spiraling connotations that come
in the afterthoughts of it, the explanations,
the tin bucket full of pieces with bark still on
for no one wants something they could've had.
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On ways romantic love has been explained to me
“It's like you've finally found your home and you know it'll always be there,” my friend’s older sister said, not bothering to look away from the passing fields outside the car window. I wanted to respond that my home is my best friend.
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unanswered
i really don't get prejudice
i mean just the concept of it
how could you hate someone borne
by the same earth, the same fire
how could you explain someone else's life
as being worth less air than your own
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sn / ap
i break lines like a maniac
obsessed with meter, st
opping thoughts before they begin
: a psy
chotic insomniac frankenstein's
