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Overdue Apology
I’m sorry for what I’ve done, the way I dance across your dreams, keeping you up all night, as you hope to keep your eyes closed a little longer, lingering in the love we share when the sun goes down. Love is love and sleep is needless, when adrenaline is your everything, swimming in your…
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Flashback – Solidarity, Until It Gets Too Sapphic
They lay their lips, on our feminist features, barely even a kiss, but it’s enough to convince them, that they’re solid in their solidarity. Everybody says I’m a good girl, until they notice I’ve been seen, in Notting Hill, a little too often, a little late at night. I make history, just by falling in…
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Chips
I feel like I’ve known you forever, you fry me chips, I sit on the counter, even though you’ve told me not to, my fingers pulsing against the plastic menus, as I compose the drum beat from a song I’m going to write about you. You lean over, gloved hand on my glowing cheeks, a…
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Things That I Have Always Known, But Never Truly Accepted
I’ve had so many epiphanies, that I keep them on the shelf, they stare with accusation, because I couldn’t fix myself. I stare back, back on my bullshit, face to face with my problems, and everything that comes with being a perpetual, pretty mess, missing opportunities to find perfect peace, because I can’t accept that…
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Mint Chocolate Chip
Make me a bowl of mint chocolate chip, while I pose, cursed on the counter, cursed to love you forever. Mind lost, mint sizzling on my tongue, until it stops, and your eyes are level with mine, kind, my sweet cerulean, sending me wild, into the waves, my palms find their way to your waist,…