First Attempts&Scattered Thoughts.
By wet_towels
Some scattered thoughts I've tried to pin down.
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Lucky Hands.
If I ever become A famous surgeon And spend my days stitching people whole again And saving lives, the Best thing I’d ever be able to do With my hands Would still be to thread them
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A Science Lesson.
In biology, there is something called Plasmolysis: When a cell doesn't receive enough water, its outer and inner walls Will separate. It is literally Detaching From itself. I wanted to tell you
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Haunted (A Nightmare).
Just now (2:46am) woke up in a cold sweat- it helped to jot down what was rushing through my mind.
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Clinic Visit.
A lifetime of summers and 20th century fireworks had not lost their warmth as the old man stroked her arm underneath the blanket tucked into the wheelchair. It is humbling to watch this love
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One Stolen Moment.
We sit near the overpass Under the umbrella of night. The weight of the sky is in your voice And I think it's love that's in your eyes. I am only a kid, I'm not on a
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I Need Better Words.
Someone once told me that the last person you think about Before you fall asleep Is the one you’re in love with. I don’t know if that’s true or not.
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Sleeping Beauty.
Some musings about the popular fairy-tale.
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Lost at Sea.
Sheets ebb and flow. Your hand finds mine in the linen sea And my toes splay against your ankles like algae. You hold me to you against the riptide of my thoughts and I swear this MUST mean
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Waiting Room.
The thin plastic chairs are cold like the coffee in the Styrofoam cup That I’m not drinking And the nurse has these wrinkles bracketing her lips Like parentheses
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Forehead Kisses
I don’t like the way you kiss me You open your mouth too wide. And I don’t like the way you scratch my spine It’s like you’re trying to crawl inside.
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Missed Calculus
Sorry I wasn’t in class the other week I had some trouble Getting out of bed You see After work yesterday my friend took me to Chipotle And I ate a...
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a short angry poem at 2:56am
You came home and punched the wall and cursed because you are so fed up with the girls and the boys playing musical hearts and you are always left...
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Soft Cycle.
For the record the laundry room near my dorm works just fine. For the record I’ve never actually had anything stolen From the dryer Or the washer Or...
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Learning.
I once wrote a love song About a poem on the internet That warned me Not to make homes Out of humans. I wrote That I am so new to this world Of...
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I don't actually have a title for this one.
I read somewhere That if the poem is good Then the words will be hard To write. This must be A goddamn masterpiece Because I have been tangled in...
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Coffee
Love is the man in the corner of the café Reading his paper Without looking up. Our eyes will meet once in a while, but He always drops His gaze. I...
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