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Tomorrow’s Girl
She rises with the sunlight,river waving a happy greeting.The day belongs to her,pen finger itching,breakfast cooking,the ground gazes up with such warmth,and her home is the pastel palace she’d always dreamed of. Upon the mantle,dangerously close to the vengeful fireplace sits the last echo of her old existence.She sent for her things and threw them…
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Just A Few Things That I Ain’t
It is a different decade and dimension,and I am mindful of what may lie outside of my window,so I simply do not look. I remember running from my reflection,making wishes on every available star for her freedom,watching the world worry less, soften and mind their business,but by the time my race was over,another cycle had…
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The Betrayal Of The Baby Violets
Longing for the lilac valleys of last night,I awoke in a crater.Fighting the feminine urge to cry,denying myself the decency of dim lights,distant music and total isolation,I was aware of myself,but unsure of her all the same. The sky was full of thunder and magic.I watched it with wistful eyes,waiting for all the ways I…
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Calling You
I am misery’s mistress,but she will not commit,so I spend each night alone,scribbling my name into the pages of an endless atlas,asking myself with a choked expression,where I have been all this time. It feels like another lifetime since I pleaded with the world not to end,but I was not as persuasive as my previous…
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Parasite In Chief, In His Mum’s Idiot Hat
The freight train fires past,and then my view is clear.Clean apartments across the street,untouched and unburdened by the responsibility of being a home,resided in by imaginary, investment capital,close to the capital city but never seeing the smoke,all alone, in a way that I find painfully relatable. This town has nothing to see.I kneel before its…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 