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Shopping
I can still picture the busy shelves,bustling with meaningless trinkets that we could buy,the dim, flickering lights that seemed to highlight the trouble I was in, so perfectly,as I picked up the same magazine,the same candy bar, that had come to taste like your kiss, in my overactive imagination. I’d run home,treats in trembling hands,lost…
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It Was Just A Dream
I had a dream that she stopped loving me. The sky was pretty when she sent me away,not a tear from the clouds, who were braver than I,but I left an ocean on her shoulder,my claws deep in the flesh of her palm as they pulled me from her and down into the abyss. I…
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The Bus Has Crashed. All We Do Is Sigh.
An ideas man with no ideas,incensed by common sense,setting off down the path of procrastination and showy distraction,because doing anything of actual value would be an abomination. Obscenely out of his depth and out of touch,tough on nothing but the nerves of the rest of us,a sycophantic sock puppet for the same old solutions, that…
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Proposal
Through thunder I hear the bells,clear and consuming.I am cautious,you are kneeling,I wander past as if it is none of my business,but your gaze gallops after me,soon you are back at my side,the question becomes more of a command and through the thunder I hear the bells. The bells are joined by shaking chains.I am…
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Hide and Self Destruct
A man is a man,and a man is a hiding place.Your flaws are just features of the cavern I created for myself to waste away. I used to wait for you by the lakes,do you remember?The night would fall and I would be found on the bank,silently begging for you to push me into the…