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Want, Need, Love
Devoured in the darkness,I am left with nothing but the memory of distracting destruction.You never stay,but that’s for the best,because I’ve so much to be getting on with,and you’re so much to deal with.I’m slipping through hands that are never around to hold me,but scratch their name into my skin all the same.I won’t go…
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A Baby In Disguise
You were thirty seven,I was seventeen.You could never resist the taste of damnation.There’s fire under your fingertips,and you like to burn the wings of angels as the sun rises.You ask me to bring you a beautiful memory,resting in restless dreams of your reckless abandon,you like the way my lipstick smudges when my face falls to…
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The Girl Who Is Still Waiting For It To Get Better
Much like Pandora,I’ve opened a box,started something I can’t finish,so, now I’m staring at a starry eyed reflection,trying to focus on not falling through the floor,because I told myself a secret that I can’t take back. I can’t swallow it again.Though I am gentle with my aching oesophagus,she simply says “no”.She has suffered enough,covering up…
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God Save The King
I’m sorry for your loss,but I’m sorry for the loss of a nation’s voice,and frankly, I don’t know you, so my right to chat shit just means a little more than you do.Pain is a panicky, prick of a thing.Perhaps you’re acting out of character,or perhaps this was who you’ve always been…Who’s to say?Not us,…
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Drunk
You stumble through an open door,losing your keys to a carpet that keeps moving as you struggle to untie your shoes,calling out my name to an empty room,hunting through the house like a drunken blood hound. I’m at home in my pillows and perfume,sewing stories together as the sun rises,you collapse against the bed with…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 