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A Story About A Girl
Let me tell you story
A story about a girl
Who had the same longing for adventure
As little Red Riding Hood
And the same urge for freedom
As Rapunzel
Let me tell you a story
About a girl
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Gotten Good At Pretending
I've gotten pretty good
At pretending
Some nights
I fall asleep
And wake up with
Red puffy eyes
But I go to school
With a smile on my face
And hope no one notices
That a bit of light
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I've had enough of them
I’m tired of being told
Not all men
There's still some them
That’s enough of them
I’ve had a enough of them
If a dog bites you
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I don't have a thing
Everybody has a thing
Something they're good at
And something they love
It's their thing
Sometimes its sports
Or arts
Or humor
Sometimes it's just being
Loved
I don't have a thing
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There Wasn't One Moment
It wasn't one moment
That made me fall in love
With snowboarding
I didn't stand at the top of the mountain
As the wind whipped my hair
And decided I loved to snowboard
It wasn't the moment when
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Sometimes I Listen to Music
Sometimes I imagine
That my life is a movie
Each scene belongs to a song
Each song to a scene
Sometimes I let myself
Just float in the music
Loves
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Growing up
When I was six I longed to be twenty five
My mother had all these rules
All I wanted was to leave my home
To live on my own
To stay up late
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lockdown
Imagine being in a place
that everyone promised was safe,
yet being chased
by a weapon
at the age of only eleven. -
unkept (wo)man
subjugated to solitude eternal,
only perceiving and watching love,
maybe receiving it but never understanding it
never internalizing it
it bounces off. Doesn't stick,
unkept and unruly and unclean.
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Some Questions Don't Have Answers
The mirror
It speaks now.
Always talking,
exclaiming, a
constant reminder of the things
that were.
Its image, changing,
sends me back.
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This country
The United States of America
as seen on the binding documents, on formal things
USA
as said by random people you know
The US
as told by your parents
America
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