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I put a spell on myself,sewing you into my soul,and there you stayed,through storms and sordid sadness,until you were done with me. I don’t miss you anymore,but I miss being in love with you.I miss waking from dreams into the waking heaven of your sleepy embrace,and feeling like I was fortunate, at last,but I shattered…
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Heatwave
This weather rewinds time.I am in the park, all summer,planning to tell you the truth when we return to tight ties and shirts that unbutton at the insistence of hungry, humbled eyes.The breeze is beaten back by the blazing sun,and I swing back and forth,swinging between Green Man and How The Mighty Fall,depending on whether…
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Too Much
I’m her favourite girl,fairweather in my affections,flickering out like a candle in the wind,but lighting up, like magic, when the mood takes me.She is my lonely Island lover,lost at sea and lost to my sweet summertime seductions.I place all my troubles on her tired shoulders,singing her songs about all of my bad dreams. I treat…
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Way Back Home
It started with a row about the invitation. Marsaili and I don’t have any secrets, so, unsurprisingly, the first time I kept one, it swirled into a cyclone that I couldn’t control. I hid the invitation, neatly decorated with both of our names, at the bottom of the recycling, hoping that I could wish it…
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Fix Up, Look Sad
Lovesick lothario and his far out fantasy.She’s a candy dream,silent scream Queen,killing Casanova dead with her red wine, divine kind of kisses. He has been reformed,finally getting his shit together at midday,as the sun sits in the centre of his life,and his family fan out with disappointed, disapproving glares,flaring up at the mere mention of…