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Why?
I would place my hand on your beating heart and ask you why.
Force you to look into my eyes and ask you why.
Stroke your grandmother's hair and ask her why.
Pick the lock at the sporting shop and ask him why. -
Doubting
One of my friends said the n-word yesterday.
Or, at least, I think she did.
It just flew out of her mouth.
Like a baby bird,
or a flyaway hair,
pulled out of place. -
Royalty High
We’re running around the city, the lights flash blue and yellow and green and red.
We stumble into a music store, the old type, with records everywhere.
You put on The King. -
Wasting All My Data On Our Late Night Calls
Please forgive me for my indiscretion
My misdirection
My nagging questions keeping you
Well past 11
I just wanted to know what you were thinking
If you were dreaming -
In the late spring light,
Baltimore is beautiful.
Oh Baltimore,
you beautiful,
broken thing.
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B.B. & Billie: A Beautiful Thing
I was listening to, or rather my dad was playing "The Thrill is Gone" by B.B. King. Normally, I would’ve complained but today B.B’s music moved me. He sings about losing the thrill of something you once loved.
Loves
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Scary
I think it's scary
To have someone
Who has done horrible things
Be in charge of our country
Have power and be in control
I love our world
But it's a mess
I don't want it
To get worse
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Fragments of Heartbreak in Paris
This morning I watched
as someone I love broke their heart.
Over and over,
I watched them wander through the secret streets of Paris,
clumsily holding their heart in their hands. -
Sweater of Me
Songs
of my father’s
belly laughter
flow through the eye
of the needle
and around the loom
with each abdominal contraction.
It reminds me of
home.
