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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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Most Likely
Most likely to
Trip
While sitting down
Most likely to
Speak
Without making a sound
Most likely to
Laugh
So nobody cries
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nevermind, then.
and the pale pink is fading from the morning sky
the same way the words from the song i sang about you
under my misty-cold breath
died on my lips. i wonder if i would've waited forever,
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But you were 13 yesterday
And now you come home at 12
Smeared mascara
Red lipstick
Left with a sweet goodbye then
Came back with sins you knew were sins in this
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Wife of a Nation
You vacuum the carpet in the same direction,
straight lines like ribs, hoping to be noticed,
hoping someone sees proof of you,
the ghost of your hands pressed into the fibers. -
