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Flashback – Solidarity, Until It Gets Too Sapphic
They lay their lips, on our feminist features, barely even a kiss, but it’s enough to convince them, that they’re solid in their solidarity. Everybody says I’m a good girl, until they notice I’ve been seen, in Notting Hill, a little too often, a little late at night. I make history, just by falling in…
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Chips
I feel like I’ve known you forever, you fry me chips, I sit on the counter, even though you’ve told me not to, my fingers pulsing against the plastic menus, as I compose the drum beat from a song I’m going to write about you. You lean over, gloved hand on my glowing cheeks, a…
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Flashback – Celebrate Your Life
Don’t go. That’s vague, non committal enough to be comfortable, but I hope you’ll see through it all, understanding that when I am with you, I am home. I don’t know you. That’s the truth, maybe it makes this confusing, but I hope we’ll have more summer days, parading and praising each other, here, our…
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Things That I Have Always Known, But Never Truly Accepted
I’ve had so many epiphanies, that I keep them on the shelf, they stare with accusation, because I couldn’t fix myself. I stare back, back on my bullshit, face to face with my problems, and everything that comes with being a perpetual, pretty mess, missing opportunities to find perfect peace, because I can’t accept that…