I've only been in love once. Correction. I've only let myself fall in love once. With Adam. So, naturally, he has inspired a menagerie of poems. More than any other one person.
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Fallen .
Written two days before we officially dated... the morning after my graduation party. It contains everything I wished to tell him, but couldn't.
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Brilliance and Beer at 2:47
Drunken rambling.
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expectations in my veins .
For some reason, penned--while drunk, again--after a very serious talk with my best friend.
I was afraid to mess things up by being so... broken. -
Raindrops and Prose
Still afraid.
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Breath-Hungry, Almost Alive
First and only thing I ever let him read.
It was the middle of the night. We were at Country Kitchen, and I was desperately compiling material for a portfolio that never even got sent. -
Silence and the Red-Yellow Leaf
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it's ironic, yeah.
I saw a picture of him kissing his ex-girlfriend on the cheek. It was so old. It was irrelevant. I was terrified of how jealous it made me.
This is when I knew I was in love in spite of myself. -
[ Fall. ]
First poem after the break-up.
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i'll wither
Actually written at an unknown point during the relationship.
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Schoolyard Art
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Erroneous Eroticism
The girl he left me for served me my coffee one night. And served for some lasting humor. She dyed her hair the same color as mine after they broke up.
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Blood and Potato Salad
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He photocopied "love" from newspaper clippings
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Daffodil in a Snowbank
Completely fictional/metaphorical.
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Birthday Poem to Me
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Smooth Heart
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