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ALL OF MY FAV POEMS FROM THIS COLLECTION ARE SAVED ON MY PROGRESS NOTES.

From RECLAIMING THE PEACH:

All that wanting,
all that aching,
all that capacity for love:

it never belonged to you in the first place.

What did you do today?
Existed quietly within myself.
What will you do tomorrow?
Exist with some degree of force.

From ON MASTURBATING WHILE THINKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DON’T LOVE YOU ANYMORE:

/ talk about wanting death from a soft thing /

From AN ADMISSION, LATE AND VIA TEXT MESSAGE pt. 2:

I’m so sick of reducing lovers to lessons.

How to let go. How to stay. How to ask for what the heart wants.

From THE YEAR OF SMOOTH DISHONESTY:

The year you lived off of love but didn’t live in it,
the year loneliness permeated everything and you didn’t open your mouth to tell anyone, because how could they

not know?

From THE YEAR OF SMOOTH DISHONESTY:

The year you wrote about flowers and meant blood,
the year you were quiet about everything that hurt.

The string of apartments with bad roommates, the suitcase always packed on the bedroom floor, all that love you kept talking about but didn’t want to fight for

From 24 & 25 HAVE A CONVERSATION:

loving people without needing to reduce them to metaphors.

From A BRIEF INTERLUDE:

Still, I spread my heart thin like butter on toast, hoping someone else will come along and snatch it off my plate. Still, I stumble half-dressed out of other people’s apartments and treat myself to coffee on the way home.

So the boy you saved for later like an after dinner mint goes and gets himself married and you’re left with nothing but spare change in your pocket it’s not even enough for a bus ride home