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pumpkin spice
You tried to tell me I was basicLike a pumpkin spice latteI had to remind you that bleach is basicAnd I can burn you just as badly Why is it bad to be compared to pumpkin spice lattes in the first place?I’m sorry you hate sweetness and comfortThat you cling to your fragile masculinity in…
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oh husband
do you still long for me?even in our ancient age of midlifedo you still crave me?even when we are too exhausted for any kind of intimacy beyond laughter when you wake-up and my side of the bed is emptydoes your body curl toward the space where I should be?when you have good news or bad…
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Grow
They told me to grow where I was plantedBut someone salted the earth I let myself go to seed and found a home on the wind I could not stay where I could not thrive I needed space and time And now I am free to build my own garden.
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pity me, pity please
If hindsight is 20/20, how is your vision still so bad? Can you really peer out into the past and not recognize the hand in your destruction is yours? You have the self-awareness of a peanut And I feel like even that is cruel to peanuts I’ve never met someone so pleased to live amongst…