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Chaotic Love
I am aiming arrows at a heart that can’t be conquered. Stupid, sapphic Cupid can’t understand why my charms are disarmed by her. My heart played, like she plays her video games, sapphire stare so focused on the screen, never at me, occasionally at the cats that slink past the cream coffee table, on the…
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Michael H
I bought you a cherry cola when we stopped for gas outside the city borders,you looked bored, my shades atop your head,my bubble gum lost in your jaws,until, of course, you saw the Adonis behind the counter, saving for college, blushing a little, but flashing a smile,as you waved like Queen Cleopatra. Your eyeliner was…
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Two Girls Go To Paris
Two beautiful babes on board the Eurostar, pink sunglasses and perfectly applied lipstick. The clouds have crept from the sky, all that remains is dazzling, brilliant sunshine, and the girls look pretty on their passports, passing landmarks as they lean into each other’s shoulders, champagne, gentle and delicious on perfectly painted lips. Two angels, aching…
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Chosen Family
We have never been in love, but his name is neatly sewn into the lining of my long suffering heart, and it is the only part that has always been hallowed ground. Slipping his hand into mine, with a chaste, close kiss on the cheek, he knows the pain of my path, and chooses to…
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Stay Away From Me
She left a potential death sentence on the fridge, my eyes roll, relaxing into a coffin, because I won’t sleep for the rest of the night, when I am gnawed at by anxiety, over what all this vagueness means, and… Christ, what if I die? What if she’s left the death on the towels in…