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Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve
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Go, go, go. / Go on away. / We aren't waiting for you. / This air is charging / and every degree / will push you down, / and eventually / shatter and melt you like ice.
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We would be swimming forever / in one body of water / no matter how far it managed to expand.
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It is the kind of present danger / that is easy to forget becaue of the trees. / A sidewalk, low stone wall, / and then a plunge into a wov
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There have been many long car rides / filled with a cadence of / radio and fervent conversation. / I am learning how to be an adult from al
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He has a long, slim leather coat, / brown and worn, creased, / with dust in the arm folds / and collecting at the bottom / of the deep, emp
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When I think of it, / I get polished tables, / thin but stong / and of light wood, / a small room that can hold / a lot more than it would seem, / froth on the edge of ceramic mugs / painted colors you'd find
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When I lift my hands, I do not expect you to take them. / And when you do, I do not expect the rest of me to follow. / And when I do, and I no longer can feel / the invisible ropes of self-control running down my legs,
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I think you left the door open / because you know I always close it
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I am suddenly beginning to understand conversations, / words spoken for me if not to me, / in a country where I don't even / know the language. / And then he is at my shoulder / so in place near Le Centre Pompidou,
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I've got a quick-commenting illusionist / that I can't trust for the charcoal on his fingers / on my left, / tense shoulders, / and an army
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This I.N.F.A.M.O.U.S form / full of [every] / translucent girl-child / with a need to feel justified / in ways she / xdoes-notx und
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I've ended up with a Q on my nose, / balancing light, hand-warmed wood / against the threat of my breath, / the square close and blurred in my line of sight. / There are consonants down my left arm, / vowels tr
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We spent four hot Saturday hours and have countless tiny slices on our fingers
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This could be my angry letter to all of the Pete Wentz-type figures in the world. Just maybe. Inspired by the lyrics I found in some contes
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She was two inches of a hemline and three-and-a-half martinis out the window. He tied a bed-sheet rope around her ankle to keep her from ki
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Name me in your crowded, love-sick fashion
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I feel like clawing in and ripping my errant thoughts apart
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I am currently storing all of my hope and dread and longing
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Easter Sunday I'm in my nana's kitchen
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He is tenuously reclined on the couch, and he perches one spindly leg on top of the other,
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My knees were scraped from spending all hours of summer on the sidewalk
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I really wasn't much, my thumbs hooked into the cuffs of my sweatshirt,
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Our school library has two floors, product of some poor architect's
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and they're sucking on chocolate-covered razorblades, before hanging them from their ears.
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I call my big brother on the phone because it's been a few days since we talked,
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And make broken-language-barrier sexual propositions.
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She was on the kitchen floor, topless. He gave her a cursory courtesy glance
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There's never much to do in an area where more than 60% of the land
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I am sitting with a quilt around my shoulders, my toes curling to stimulate circulation and beckon warmth,
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You can always find this guy in a slick black apron,
swinging miracle fishes on Tuesdays
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The roads are paved with concrete and toil,
and the low gray buildings huddle around them,
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There's something you think you can see, but can't,
in the corner of the half-vulgar smile;
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