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• Drama king

  You said you hated all the fighting that you got into with your friends on group chat and you couldn’t stand the drama You were misunderstood by your team you said No one seemed to understand your off-brand wisdom I worked to the bone to unravel your complicated mess because you looked at me with…

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  December 23, 2021

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• Comraderie

  In the fight against the world, we fought on the same side, for the same cause. We’re brothers, you said Then you slept with other girls. You always wanted to be right. In love, you treated me like a woman. I tried to teach you to be my equal. But you only knew how to…

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  December 20, 2021

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• Perennial

  I’m waiting for these orchids to bloom. At first I was skeptical because I don’t have good experience with keeping plants alive. I got into plants only a year ago, when I first bought this one. I bought them when we were talking and we first met. You were helping me with things. I stayed…

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  December 19, 2021

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• Asking the postman

  I had a friend I knew since I was in middle school and over time we realized there was a bond that stood still among the ups and downs of life and more importantly through the changes and transformations in ourselves. In our late twenties we converged and being married was on our minds. When…

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  December 18, 2021

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• The fall of summer

  The taste of apple, kale and ginger reminds me of the first day of fall, maybe even before that actually, more like the first day in the summer when you knew it was ending. The memory of summer feels like one long day that turned into one long night. Warm and hazy, I swam through…

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  November 13, 2021

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• Take your cage, take your keys

  I’ve decided that love from now on should taste like freedom I won’t be keeping any more promises so you can’t blame me for breaking them When I think of how you cornered me into surrendering my right for your wrong Your revenge gone off-center feeding an ego binge I almost admire your expert crafting…

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  November 13, 2021

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• Lighting strikes twice

  I don’t know how to describe this except to describe it I thought I loved someone that I knew for over a decade, but we ended and I thought I wouldn’t recover And then there he was, also waiting, for just as long. In my life the only loyalty I knew was how misadventure followed…

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  October 21, 2021

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• Waiting

  I will bring you the strength I found in these few days I was thinking about everything that was taken from me, all the mending and fixing I worked for in the last decade to bring some tenderness to myself That he selfishly robbed clean I thought about the gorey emptiness of that lost time…

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  October 15, 2021

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• Simple things

  I’m not sure how to describe this, I’ve always expected love to be that rush of excitement. I expected intensity and jealousy and drama but it’s calm now, Everything is calm It’s not even that it’s the calm romantic music I want to listen to, like the wedding playlists, book of love, I’m even tired…

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  October 11, 2021

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• They called me names

  They called me a heartbreaker Yet I’m but a truth-teller It doesn’t just roll off my tongue It is born in labor and earthquakes and devastation How much they hated me and I admit I enjoyed it I was a tower struck by lightning No, I was a lightning rod in a storm It shook…

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  October 3, 2021

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