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i run the words “kiss me” in my head continuously
i don’t know why +
i never say them out loud
only to no one - to fashioned images or likenesses
of what you might look like if everything had worked out
differently
this is a game:
pick well and early or suffer the consequences of indecision
for the rest of your four more years
home stretch and i’m walking
sort of by choice
used to be on purpose but in hindsight i picked poorly
the biggest problem with everything
is that it’s all hypothetical and while it’s safer it’s also not
because that one cliche said so
i don’t know if i could fall in love with anyone
and i know that that’s ambiguous
kiss me
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let me breathe
i'm far enough away to be safe
sometimes i wish i died last weekend
but i’ll find a way to be okay with it
i think
nothing is constant but it has to be this way
time is frustrating but only if you pay
attention
and i think i am forever
but i still can’t get far enough
away
distance has its benefits and it doesn’t matter
which road you take and one of the roads
was closed
it was paved over my childhood and now i drive it
every day getting anywhere
getting far enough away
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insect beds
02:17
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kiss me / let me fall asleep with you
make me dream to castevet / save the stars for later
air / sweet things / nightgazing
nothing is solid
i have to remind myself / it will never happen
every daydream / lucid
lie on the cold hard ground with me
sweet dreams
room and board / a matter of persuasion
sprinkled skies / the world through trite eyes
night / falling gradually / rather, submerging
liquid skin
i have to remind myself
chopin’s scherzo no. 2 / crackling
leaves sleep / insect beds
miss me
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you are the reason i’m alive
i couldn’t stand to see you
at my funeral without at least
one last goodbye
(one i never wrote)
back in october i made
the biggest mistake of my life
but you’re happy now
so sometimes i wonder
if it was a mistake at all
you are the most important
person on the planet to me
even though we never
hang out anymore
when we first met i seriously thought
you were an angel
now i don’t believe in angels
and though i want so desperately
to be with you always
i know it is better if we part
i will only hold you back
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i hope i’m late tomorrow
i hope i forget to set my alarm
and sleep thru everything
i hope i forget to stay calm
stay reserved and keep myself
to myself
i want to write
to all my friends before we go away
but i don’t know if i can
i can’t express memories
in words or in anything other than
old recordings from when we were young
imagery has failed me
i can’t show you what i feel
or why i can’t breathe
“stay awake, i want to see you
one last time before i fall asleep”
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i wonder if this sense
of finality / conclusion
is false; i have to think
this in order to leave
my dad sees his friends
three times a year or so
and i never want to be
like that
i don’t know how everyone
looks with joyful anticipation
to the future; i tend to think
the best is over or will be soon
and every step forward
is coupled with a crisis;
i never want to be like that;
i need to do this all again
maybe i will do this all again
i’m not ready for this to be over
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