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How they care
We're eating lunch
and someone says your name
and he asks
how is she anyway?
There's an orchestra in my heart
that's playing just for you
and playing happy now
because they care.
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Home Driving Home
My bluntstones are muddy
and kicked off
on the floor
my feet are tucked underneath me
we're on our way home.
We drive by the yellow car
that's too broken to go anywhere
but it's hill
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Mermaids and Other Things I Miss About You
The science teacher showed your writing
as an example in class today
and even though
he cut off the name, I knew
it was you.
The way you make your y's and f's
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The girl with nail polish like stars
The girls drum their fingernails
Lightly
Not like real drumming
More like timid rain.
Their nails extend
Two nail lengths past
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This fire
If they didn’t last time why
Would they now
If last time the world was on fire
They put it out with water and wrote about it in the news and got themselves quoted
Loves
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What I'll Remember
I'll remember the dew drops.
The ones on the grass after
a particularly humid night.
I'll remember the golden sunlight
seeping into our kitchen window
in the morning.
It would catch the side of our faces,
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One Died that Night
Normal days,
tragic endings,
I was playing games,
you were seeing lights,
I was listening to background noise and music,
you were hearing sirens.
Glass breaking,
life shattering,
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Paradox
Love is a paradoxical thing.
I want desperately to be loved.
I want to wake up to a "good morning, my favorite person" text.
I want the last thing I see at night to be a little red heart emoji.
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I want to tell you I love you
I want to tell you I love you
I love you and your smiles
Your voice even though I’m still learning your language
The way your hands hold things
A basketball
Your sisters hand
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Declan.
Last night at work, I had a bit of a panic attack. Something like that, something similar. You don’t really know while you’re in it, why it happens, but the reasons were there, and I know them now.
