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"It didn't mean that much to me, seventeen, / my practiced sangfroid / chilling the terror, that long drop / inside, the way you collapse to fall in flames."
— May 28, 2017 09:12PM
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Eun Kim
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"How exactly pinned-to-the-wall / love was in that harsh economy, the world, the world, the world."
— Jun 06, 2017 07:37PM
Eun Kim
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"making love was a way of saying yes, / I am here, these are my borders, hold me down / a little while. Make me real to myself."
— Jun 06, 2017 07:27PM
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"Of all that group I'd meet when I was young... / I can't recall what we spoke of—it meant so much."
— Jun 06, 2017 07:22PM
Eun Kim
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"They'd kept forgetting their lines, passing between takes / a silver flask of vodka, washing down / barbiturates until finally the shooting stopped / and that's why the scene's so lost."
— Jun 06, 2017 07:05PM
Eun Kim
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"Monroe shimmies, the barroom scene, hair musical, those / naked humid eyes."
— Jun 06, 2017 07:02PM
Eun Kim
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"narrow streets fill with the violet steam / of after-midnight, the pigeons' soft venereal / cooing that speaks of want like this, that deep / original loneliness. There are heartless places / in every city you've lived."
— Jun 06, 2017 07:00PM
Eun Kim
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"Close your eyes and then the night turns to coal / seamed with diamonds."
— Jun 06, 2017 06:56PM
Eun Kim
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"tulips shriveling petals to show black hearts..."
— Jun 06, 2017 06:51PM
Eun Kim
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"The camera angle's high and dizzy: / like a funneling throat..."
— Jun 06, 2017 06:46PM
Eun Kim
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"and a girl walks trailing / from her shoulders a glitter wrap so / the shadow pimps go hey princess, / why you so sad tonight."
— Jun 06, 2017 06:33PM

