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America, you drive your women mad
in their fight or flight for perfection, have them cut themselves open, -
And before that, in the shower or laying in bed,
the hard lump under her fingers ringed with self-denial -
human love is not perfect
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I could be Anywhere;
Anywhere; not Nowhere; -
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Told that I am brave,
I traverse the parking lot like a warrior. -
I want to be gigantic but
as insubstantial as light -
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mad, happy mad, awkward and beautiful,
stomping her feet like a gypsy -
I wrote a letter to your mother
with no return address. -
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I never wanted children.
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I dreamed that there were small fingers in my mouth.
They were counting down the days, -
I am tired of small loves.
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He says his skin's not yellow
so he can't be dying quite yet. -
It is the moments when I declare
I should write poetry about this -
She is crying for the time we locked ourselves out of the house
and I had to run down the street in my stockings; -
Halloween this year
I am without a costume. -
This is the sound of
of things falling apart-- -
I have sat on bridges and thought of jumping into the ocean,
swept out and polished like sea glass. -
An adventure in the lyrics of contempory Tin Man
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"baby, I'm only into you because of that pretty mouth",
your fingers traveling up the inside of my thigh. -
If you are not the devil, you are at least mine.
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Solving riddles in the computer room with my dad,
he makes his answers fit. -
Two o'clock feels like a dream, nightmare, the time between times.
I stood on the playground swings that squeal so loud. -
I'm tired of telling him that I'm not a hipster intellectual,
that the square root of negative one hundred forty-four is 12i and, oh, -
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Deep below these heavy sounds.
I'm rose above these deepen thoughts.by Only-Speak-YourMind 14 lines, 1 comment, 1 day ago. In Other, Sad, Thoughts, Contemporary, Sadness -
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Peeking around the corner down the hall,
you see the fog building -
Maybe the skies can't hold tears back
That's why they fallby ArchCarXxx 42 lines, 2 comments, 2 days ago. In thoughts, life, nature, contemporary, society, life your life, rain, storm, love, more, other -
On sunny sunday a mobile
lies by my side in sleep; -
Time has ridden you now
raw valleys
and look at you! -
A. If Mrs. Parton married an artist named Salvadore,
she would be Dolly Dali. -
Life's just a joke
that God like's to tellby Penance 26 lines, 2 days ago. In Contemporary, Life, Humor, Spiritual, Thoughts, Weird, My own style, Lost in thought -
by nichtmich 9 lines, 1 comment, 2 days ago. In Background, Contemporary, Dark, Fantasy, Personal, Tag
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THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORDby wander of the sky 39 lines, 8 comments, 2 days ago. In Fantasy, Personal, Contemporary, Hope, Children, Escape
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today is a blessing
of pink hats and -
measure of man
held in awkward brambles -
My name is out of focus
Life twirls around me dancing in delight -
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Me,
wondering howby babiigurl1995 20 lines, 1 comment, 2 days ago. In Love, Life, Pain, Thoughts, Contemporary, Personal, Other, Teen issues, Self -
Relationships suck that
i just hide and -
The morning fog,
Billowing beyond -
Certainty
requires -
With ancient latin text taken from Medieval vesper chants
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