boys are supposed to have backbones

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words are supposed to have meaning. kisses are supposed to be soft. love is supposed to be infinite, and bones are supposed to be...

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10 months later

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Today is September 28th, 2015. I've been biting down on the abstract for about ten months now, writing poems about anonymous heartb...

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when you slam the door.

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you use the term best friends but the only best in this friendship is the anxiety that's getting the best of me. the rest of it...

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"nothing gold can stay" (frost, 1923)

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He keeps his fingers close to backspace keys, ready and willing to deplete and delete as necessary. He keeps his fingers close to bac...

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heartaches and earthquakes.

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tonight I almost wrote the words "I'm done" across your screen. tonight I almost took hold of my time and walked away fro...

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cigarettes & diamonds

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I never wanted to be a sinner, but I never fit like a saint. My edges are hard like rock and cold like ice that never melts. I hear t...

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unplugged soul

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I showed him my blog if he promised never to speak of it again.  He said, "I'll never say a word about it. Promise." ...

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bedroom eyes

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He's playing with my fears. He's got hands full of money, paying taxes on his compliments, and charging 100% of my interest...

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music class

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Hard eyes cross-cutting the room,  raising the temperature of your blood with every measure of Bon Jovi  when all you can see is his gh...

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it was supposed to be easier than this

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I thought music was for healing. I thought they applied it to wounds. Songs weren't supposed to sting, and words weren't su...

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8,765 hours later.

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I remember last year. We made lists. Lists that people make on the first day of January, to pour a little sugar in their problems...

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poetry, whatever it is to you.

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this is not an assignment. this is your heart aligning with your grammar, and confessions becoming the sentences that are piling up ...

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kissing drafts

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you were my first kiss. my basement-closet-kiss that put a dangerous hue on 13 years old. I couldn't tell you the color of your eye...

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I'm not a librarian.

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People: You turn their corners, you flip their pages, you write a sentence or two in their guestbooks. You read their lines, ...

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3

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It's been three months since I sat upright on a bus in Pennsylvania. Three months since the rain washed Baltimore into a DC subway ...

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I should be reading about politics.

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I should be reading about politics, but your scrawl is all over the bedroom wall and your handwriting is more legible than 56 men and...

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thoughts before fall strikes

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I want to talk about the last taste of summer,  how the trees are slightly tinted and how people's lives start over in the fall w...

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last words (for this phase in life)

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This is the last hour before I leave my insincerity. Before I turn into something less immature than a high school graduate and mor...

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