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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?
What if change -
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: Girl Not Named Georgia
555 Far Away College Dorm
City with No Cornfields, Peach State
661.9 Miles Away, USA -
I’m good at poetry, I just don’t like it very much
“I’m good at poetry, I just don’t like it very much.
It’s one of those things where if you do it enough for school, you get just as good as someone who likes it.”
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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