poem
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second story
in the spring another fall for the stubborn leaves that cling to the now new budding branches life pushes death out of the way fluttering, twisting, fighting bearing it’s own memory these lonely strangers fall once blessed with such a view they gather in corners and whisper tall tales from the elusive past they wander…
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whatever’s next
he found her from the footprints in the snow she ran away but she had nowhere to go and no lie could be a fitting mask one look and he didn’t have to ask with an arm around her shoulder he stayed there in the silence she knew that he cared she cried until the…
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if we kissed
if we kissed would you slap my face? would a kiss be out of place? if i loved you and told you so would you fold your arms and tell me no like a parent with a little boy pointing to an expensive toy would you tell me “surely someone else” “just leave this one…
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strobe lights
storms like strobe lights slide through a valentine sky every girl i can think of has a hand upon her thigh a man to make her happy at least a reason not to cry hold the kiss in through the door stop to laugh while fingers try to work their dresses to the floor breathe…
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the problem with hope
i must explain what i can’t ignore a love that i’ve always apologized for hope’s in the corner with her fingers crossed wisdom tells her to get lost but every night she speaks to me i used to memorize her stories like closed eyes over a cake candle wish like those moments i thought i…
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sometimes
sometimes it sounds like silence not many words could be as cruel sometimes it sounds like a siren or smells like jet engine fuel sometimes it stings like an open wound sometimes it’s a numb touch sometimes it gets more than it’s earned sometimes it takes too much and it can seem like a new…