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I know you went running
yesterday
and your kids had a great
first day of school
picture, anyway,
I wore overalls too
but everyone will think
I was copying you
won't they didn't they
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Enough
We'll march with cardboard signs
rainbow letters pretend
that we're happier than we are
because we understand
the depth of this hole we've dug ourselves
into
the fire we've fed
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Not just mud season
High of fifty four degrees
That was yesterday
T shirt skiing and I packed shorts
In the bottom of my backpack
High of twenty seven
That’s today
Maybe a t shirt
Later
But I walked to the mailbox
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Sugar Moon
We ate a pint of Ben and Jerry's
together
in the back of your mom's car
that's what friends are
for
and then we skied
when the sun set
and the stars rose
and
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All The Homes
In dirt roads
the way you bounce in your seat
and smile at the mud
coated tires
coated legs
coated boots
while everyone complains that it's not
summer.
Loves
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The Glass Statue Girl
The Glass Statue Girl
looks at the world with eyes of shards
moves through life like a river
her figure sluicing across paths of people
who see a clear accessory
The Glass Statue Girl
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flicker, flicker
The light flickers in my bedroom
as I brush my hair;
I remember that theory that it’s someone dead trying to speak to you,
I’m sure it’s just a thing from movies.
The light flickers again in the bathroom -
not prescribed
live in the moment
i'm trying so hard to look
at you
and not to think of the possibilities i know
i can't have,
all the things you rejected the moment
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Daybreak
I’m afraid of the dark
And the art
I haven’t made
The places not stayed
And the overstayed welcomes I
Know not to inhale the stratosphere keep
Both feet on the ground
And look straight ahead
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249th
blow out your candles.
make a wish.
hold up a protest sign.
tonight the fireworks spell R E S I S T.
your hair's in pigtails braided red blue and white.
