
Writing

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Everything
I want to write about everything
the steady rain
the misery
the end of school
the upcoming event
the natural world
the current political universe of doom
but I can't phrase it
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Enough
Constantly
all the time
I feel like crying
I've just had enough
enough of the girls accidentally hitting us with balls in P.E. class without them apologizing
enough of depressing experiences and losses;
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The deal
You had my back.
I had yours.
Because that was the deal.
That was our deal.
No negotiating.
No way around it.
That's what it is.
I email you when I shouldn't.
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Sequim
The bus to the Bellingham Amtrak Train Station was long and grueling; nothing short of a suffocation chamber for its passengers that day. Crowded, overlapping voices.
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Thoughts
I lie awake in bed
With my thoughts -
No AC and it's hot and humid.
I open a window.
It doesn't help.
I can feel the ghost of you in my every movement.
The blankets you snuggled into,
Just last night.
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My Life on Marigold Hill
That feeling, once granted in
brings warmth and a violet hue
It beads my eyes, of now burned through
pin cushion medicine