63 8 0
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she worked her way into my arms/tangled, curly hair/half-open cherry mouth/clinging to me like she was my other nut
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2210
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When I'm crashing on a couch
And I sink into the floor
And I write what I don't know
And I think what is mine alone
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104022
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The boy buckled in and told his mom, “No mommy, I can do it myself”
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104312
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151821
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Standing hard at the windowCold clouds move, slowBlue horizon in the distance—It's just a slice of blue.All this beautyI miss it in the bitterness.I'm consumed by the missingThe emptinessThe unfairnessAlways some unfairness cropping upand capturing joy.Glancing high…
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4760
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Young girl / Stealing coins from pockets
/ Getting thrown out of school / The streets suited her well / There she blended
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5762
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Minerva watched him / her mind was no longer clear and precise / it short-circuited
/ under the weight of mundane tasks
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55105
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I examined
her tattered hide; she had made a nest
out of a pile of fur.
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136377
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She caretakes, he takes care
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278109
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... Anything to mollify / the confusion. Anything to simplify / the math....
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129422
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The fucking black dress; the fucking black dress that obfuscates whether or not you're pretty in the face, that obfuscates the sound of your voice, that obfuscates the color of your hair, your eyez, your skin,
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1903920
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some malevolent, unspeakable craving
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2461
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a cop sits on the hood of his car
enters traffic tickets into his gadget
talks into his cellphone
codes that mean something to
someone
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2320
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95177
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she looked younger than most
85-year-olds / was well aware of this /
cursed god for tricking her into thinking /
she was still too young to die
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