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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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I Walked Home the Long Way
I walked home the long way because I knew the sky would not be angry at me.
The moon knew what it felt like to be so tired you couldn’t even think
Of going to bed.
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pink ink scrawled on torn-out notebook paper
Top Gun soundtrack and
peanut butter m&m's and
writing poetry for my friends on
torn-out sheets of notebook paper, scrawling
the verses in pink ink that
reminds me of fairy wings and
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on endings
and—
time
(itsoveritsoveritsoveritsover)
stops.there
are
tears
in
your
eyes,
mascara
smeared -
The West Wind
The West Wind is a banker in a smart navy suit and a tie. His dress shoes clack on the pavement; he’s got someplace to be, always someplace to be, rushing to the sidewalk, the subway, the elevator, checking his gold Rolex watch.
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anti-fascist frogs
let me tell you what i saw today
when i was downtown with 200k others
in the heart of the city of the nation,
a swamp raised to stand above the world. with
flags &
signs &
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the thunder
Sunny days brought her life.
The flower loved sunny days.
She flourished under the bright star,
smiled at its rise.
But then the next day,
it rained.
Hard.
Like a thunderstorm.