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Would you call the other planets illegal?

I sure wouldn't

they're just existing in space 

but I guess if thats case 

they would be aliens to us 

The cardigan that my grandma wraps me in when I am cold.;

Dusty piles of cards from someone who loves me;

Computer overheating with a two-thousand-million-word PDF scrapbook;

In wrapping your arms around someone,

you're getting a hug, too.

In giving someone else advice,

you're telling yourself what you need to hear.

In writing someone a story or a poem,

Hope is the thing that boils my blood when I see injustice in the world

Hope is the thing that keeps me up at night scratching at the innards of my body 

because it craves to be free

I shut down a lot

I don’t know why I do it.

I can’t control it,

but for some reason

the voice inside my head

says it is because I am

attention seeking.

I know I am not.

it started as nothing

just another day

just another you

then something shifted

so small i almost missed it

like a breath held too long

now everything feels louder

the way you laugh