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  • “Being young is such a goddamn pain” (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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  • 9/30

    I have laid down my voice, my fingers’ renderings of sounds I made when you left. . I have done the takes over and over, hit the button, pause, delete, record. I finished last night, and found I could not stop replaying the unedited cut, that slice of loss and longing, the song that had

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  • 7/30

    There is no one watching. Go ahead. Unbutton your top button, let your body take its own shape. Breathe a noisy waterfall into the still air. Take a finger, use it to pick your nose; breathe a little easier. Breathe. Follow that thought trickling backwards up into the forest of your hair, burrowing through to

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  • 6/30

    To Darkness . Whenever I want to write What Makes People Feel Things, I look for you. Examine my skin for bruises (although I do everything I can to avoid collisions), pick at and study the black somethings packed underneath my nails (washing hands is for people who don’t write anything important), trace my pillowcase

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  • 5/30

    When You Told Me I Am a Happy Person . Even though my tears were still clinging to your fleece shirt, I did not argue, any more than I would argue with the strands of blonde the morning has threaded into my hair. . My lips are bruised from trying to shape my darknesses into

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