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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
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How the sky cries
The sky cries
with rain.
The sky snows for every whispered secret
from under thick blankets
in the dark
for the kid in everyone
that finds joy
the sky hugs with snow.
Loves
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In Poetry We Say....
You aren’t what I need to breathe like a fish out of water
Aren’t what I desire nor the sounds of laughter
That make me smile.
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Old Grey T Shirt
A girl
In the elementary school
Had to walk around
In an old grey T shirt
Way to big for her
Because
A sliver of skin
Not much thicker than my thumb
Was showing
And the teachers
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Can You Hear It?
Can you hear the roar of the crowd?
The thousands of people,
Kids, teens, adults and seniors.
All screaming at the corrupt administration that we call a government.
We will not be silenced.
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Chicago Audition
I used to walk into a theater and it was salvation.
Stage lights and people who filled up a room,
I was happy to watch them for hours.
I wanted to become some part of that
some part of the instant admiration
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And What Must They Think of Our Golden Door Now?
the statue of liberty was brown once, an unprepared American girl blistering in the sun as if our Constitution has torn sharp green papercuts into her skin.
