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How The Grinch Got Her Groove Back
I was warm again,waiting in the wings as the world tried to survive,red and white lights passed me by and I was struggling to save my own spirits.Losing and living,it was four days to Christmas, but I just couldn’t feel it,but then…I remembered that my grandmother giving me grief in the kitchen was so close,just…
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Darling, I’m Bored Of Waiting
You were plagued by paperwork,peering over your glasses in disbelief as I dared to interrupt you for the third time that morning.It was boring to be second best to your best attempts at responsible adulthood,me, modelling for an audience of none, in my new summer dress,skin sparkling under the trail of sunlight from the window,but…
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Gift Giving
You asked for the world,but all I could manage was my soul.She’s a little scratched, a little sore, but she still believes in love. She isn’t powerful,or awe inspiring.She isn’t the kind of thing that means that much, but she’s all I’ve got,and she’s sitting, patiently in my palm,waiting for you to say “Yes”. Won’t…
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A List Of Things I Lost My Mind Over At 4AM
It is 4am and I need to empty out my head because every time she hits the pillow, she pauses to read aloud another tortured thought, and, of course, that means no sleep, so I have a sly plan, to make a list, leaving it all in the lines, so I can lie down and…
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Shooting Star
A star fell as the moon made eyes at me,and I thought about you.You, so faraway,fretting and fiddling with your fringe, somewhere in my fantasies,that faceless shape I ache for when I leave my dreams and land back in reality. You. I know you’re out there,somewhere,walking the same streets,whipped up in the same winter wind…