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Chain Smoking
It wasn’t ever personal, until you were the only person I could think of, unintentional, so impractical, I began speaking in clichés and dreamy drooling. My eyes carved out, spinning wildly on the staff room table, as I placed marble hearts, where they used to reside. I had a lovely time, watching you chain smoke,…
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A Moonlit Kiss in The West End
I remember you, six foot something sunset, who ran away from the circus. Waiting in a Chinatown alley, to entice me to the dark, with candy clouds. Your name melted on my tongue, sensual, sugary syllables, dancing down my throat, and back out. I spelled it out in sighs, drinking in the sights.…
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Where We Came From
I still hear you, crawling from your music box, fresh on the floor, always on my mind. I tried to find you, in him, but you can’t find love, in a man you just tolerate. I holler at the moon, silently, my eyes leak, loud, as I sing our song, at the window sill, waiting…
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Planting Roses
No bars to break, but here I am, surrounded by searching space, a prisoner, encased in ivy, that I have imagined, grew side by side, with the roses we planted. I never knew my charge, but I was sentenced to be sped, back to the real world, on several delayed trains, with barely…