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St. Sabrina says "I just don't breathe in the city like I used to. Here the light is scraped clean on a rockby electric godiva 23 lines, on Jul 29 5:11 PM 2008. In Institutionalized
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My father is sixteen and standing in front of a window,
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The night before you came I was trapped in Cuba with waves like ghosts rearing up from behind buildings.
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Cheap clatter of metal
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Anything can emerge from this field because the earth is black, an Egyptian black
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I. My cousin and I go for a walk
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a knife is dipped into blood which freezes and is dipped again and again, then
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Grandpa’s telling me that tax payer dollars shouldn’t be used to help gay people with aids, and I distract myself by looking out the window
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When Hannah comes home,
have her take off her shoesby electric godiva 38 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 29 4:35 PM 2008. In Institutionalized -
out behind the can-redemption center where they work.
They never noticed me there, brought up forthwith -
I think I would make an amusing crazy person.
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I wanted to call a thing by its perfect name.by electric godiva 33 lines, on Mar 26 9:37 PM 2007. In literary musing
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you kept walking, pretending you didn't know me
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If I were to tell you the secret of death,
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You are merely the symbol of my longing
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This is an old story, one that everybody knows. If you never read this poem, you'd probably still have a good idea of what it's about.
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I have a beast that lives inside of me.
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He carried his daughter's body with him.
He was surprised at how easy it was.
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