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“It’s called a mondegreen, a misheard lyric, like how the Ramones will sing, I wanna be sedated, & my mom will nod along as she sings, I want a piece of bacon. It’s the way our brains fill in gaps, make sense of things we didn’t
or couldn’t hear, the way my mom said,
he’s gone, & I asked her where?”
― Swallowtail
or couldn’t hear, the way my mom said,
he’s gone, & I asked her where?”
― Swallowtail
“Looking around at dirty clothes and empty bottles,
I got seasick for the first time in my life.”
― The Dogs I Have Kissed
I got seasick for the first time in my life.”
― The Dogs I Have Kissed
“I am telling you this because I love you, and if anyone should hurt you, it should be me.”
― Our Numbered Days
― Our Numbered Days
“The poet worries she is writing the same poem
over and over. No matter what words she puts down,
it comes out with a bite. It says I love you with a
mouth full of bone.”
― The Dogs I Have Kissed
over and over. No matter what words she puts down,
it comes out with a bite. It says I love you with a
mouth full of bone.”
― The Dogs I Have Kissed
“A magician talks about the record for holding one’s breath as his assistant lowers herself into a tank of water.
He calls it twenty-two minutes, but I swear to you it’s longer.
I swear to you, it’s years.”
― Swallowtail
He calls it twenty-two minutes, but I swear to you it’s longer.
I swear to you, it’s years.”
― Swallowtail
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