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Maybe They Don't
Do the penguins care
about the one with orange beaks, an extra stripe?
Do the giraffes mind
that his neck is longer, that she has less spots?
Because the humans do,
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Take a Moment
To you
you who lives among our rainbow hills--
green one moment
orange the next
and always blue in the distance--
you who lives along a river
you who lives looking into sunsets
you and you
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After Party Party
The party ends the dancing
begins
beautiful mutual
agreement that social-ness
is exhausting.
Bouncing spinning laughing
hair in high pony tails
we're models singers dancers
Loves
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The end of the beginning
I thought
This would be it.
Five and a half days would pass
Like lightning -
And you'd be gone,
And so would everyone else,
And we'd readjust,
Refocus again,
And I'd be back
To square one.
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routine details
the bus driver glared at me
like i was a sin to society;
he called me a fag—under his breath,
and i got in my seat like nothing happened.
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Penthouse Party
There's a party in the penthouse
where people come and go
admission is free and based on nothing
and if you go once, you'll never truly leave.
It's not hard to get in, but you won't be invited
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stranger to blue water
sing to me.
i've been a stranger once more
to your hills and valleys, to the
gaps of sunlight between your grasping evergreens.
i've been a stranger
to the red barn
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Turning A Page
Verse 1
The sun sets slow on this fading day,
I see your faces, but they feel far away.
Laughter lingers in the hollow air,
But something’s shifting like you’re not really there. -
summer
the air tastes like honey and promise
sticky with the scent of blooming jasmine
and freshly cut grass that crunches beneath bare feet
the sky drips blue
stretching wider every afternoon