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The Stone and the River
They said to think about who you are
And who you want to be
After camp
And I thought
What if I don’t know
The changes I want to happen to me?
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Legacy
I hope that our legacy is our effort to love, that it is the times we held umbrellas above other peoples heads and shared whatever food we had and pointed out the stars.
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A Hug of People
We didn't know the guy
in the truck
who's that guy?
my sister asked,
and I wondered if city people
expected to know everyone
they saw around town.
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News
Ice caps are melting,
According to the news,
Which I’ve stopped reading,
Because I don’t want to hear about the
Melting ice
Underneath the polar bears feet,
Not when I see enough
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I love
I love you.
I know that’s just meAnd you
And there are hundreds
Of millions
Of haters
Of hated.
But I love you.
But you’re my best friend.
I love you for phone calls
Loves
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to tina and amy
Thank you,
tina fey and amy poehler
it makes me feel good
that you two
sat behind
the weekend update desk
telling jokes
proving that edgy,
political comedy
is not just
a
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The Ink of His Heart
This is from a longer project of mine, but I really liked how this stanza turned out, and I think it kind of works on its own.
I flip through the first
Couple of pages,
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Old friends
I'm tired of walking the same loop
Taking the same few steps forward
Just to walk the same steps back
I'm enamored with the way we were
Enamored with the things we swore
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that one tiktok song
i wanted to be a writer
collected words to form my thoughts
to dictate what i felt but couldn't say
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i can't remember when i last said the pledge of allegiance
i know all the words, of course. who doesn't? we are practically
brainwashed into our knowing, having to stand and face the flag
(when did you learn that it was hand over heart &