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so that when we are surrounded on all sides by darkness
and wrapped up in questions like,
"why?" and "how do we fix this?"
you will still have a love deep within you that cannot be tamed.
although it may be difficult to locate.
and i will say something like,
"we are out of practice." or "i'm not in love with our world."
"not with myself, not with most people that i encounter,
but a few that pierce me, like you,
with a strange and everlasting quality.
and that will always remain."
so that our faces will burn in fever
when that inevitable darkness finds us.

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i want to wear my heartbreak with pride.
you can't take my loveless from me.
-------you can't take my late nights.
--------------so let me have them.
just take a sip of my hot chocolate,
(that was a giant sip)
and let me be with my meaningless dreams.
----------creative self-destruction?
-----nah, just creative.

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broom. zoom. now my kitchen floor is clean.
peanuts with chocolate milk.
changing. up-staging...arranging ourselves.
re-arrange the couches
and suddenly that wall talks.
it's never spoken before, and man how excited it is.
so i fell asleep in a different living room
and dreamed of a boy and a window
that looked out onto nothing.
and i woke up to find peanuts all over my clothes.
damn. not again.
get serious for a second.

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