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ballerina in a music box
you are a dancer and so you find a way to dance
through everything:
the hallways, gym class, chorus
when we have to stand, white fields, your dance studio,
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red-cheeked & giddy with hope
we plan sledding days at the country club with a hill
& reminisce about them when summer comes,
recall hours spent tumbling
head over heels into mounds of snow, clutching
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unanswered
i really don't get prejudice
i mean just the concept of it
how could you hate someone borne
by the same earth, the same fire
how could you explain someone else's life
as being worth less air than your own
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sn / ap
i break lines like a maniac
obsessed with meter, st
opping thoughts before they begin
: a psy
chotic insomniac frankenstein's
scientist type f
Loves
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Buttons
I remember you. We remember you.
You used to come in every weekend with your mother and brother when you were younger. They made you seem like you were made for softer things. They used to pretend like they were made for softer things too. -
where it doesn't wait.
I keep checking
the places happiness once sat,like a pocket
I’ve already turned inside out. -
Improbability
Oh, no, I’m not here
For a reason.
It’s an almost comforting thingThe fleck of light of a chance
The infinite things
That had to go right.
If I were a different person -
What You Didn’t Know
You see a mother and her daughter —
Both smiling, both beautiful, both whole.
What you don’t see is the message sitting in her pocket,
Telling her that her husband isn’t coming home from war.
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scheduled landing
We met like passengers
assigned to the same row
close enough to share armrests,
not a destination.
