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Hurt

I wanna be harder to love.

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Cellphone micropoem

You build home and home moves You build home and home moves Shhhhhh this is a library I have food to eat that you know not of This is a library I actually enjoyed food today When I'm with you When I'm with you I remember When I'm with you I remember my voice

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I'm getting to know gas station bathrooms really well lately.

You showed me a stage that she was standing on. I was the stage. Then she spoke and I was in the front row. "You have helped me be a more honest person." I can walk barefoot on asphalt but parking lots are where I stop trusting pavement and when and when and when did I stop trusting you?

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OK so,

I'm pretty. Now what?

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What I found in my backpack

journal

pen

headphones

Kelly Kruse’s gallery show booklet

letter from Fredric

release form for a tattoo I didn’t get

box of 10 markers

collection of a few markers I accidentally stole from Meagan, maybe 4

pencil from the Golden Gate Bridge gift shop that writes orange and states “Dream Big”

finished poem journal

coffee collar

Orbitz gum

certificate for 5 free hours of yoga

a fruit strip from Aldi

floss

assorted lipwear

Uptalk by Kimmy Walters

tampon, at least one

pantiliners

chopsticks

bottle of ibuprofen

What Sits Between My Veins by Samantha Slupski

Band-Aid box, floating around, open

gold coin purse

the big wallet

the real wallet

coins adding up to $8.03

deodorant

new deck of cards from Ikea

kazoo purchased to play with the church kids

neosporin

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

pair of socks

spare key to Rana’s car

4-5 fortunes from cookies

cloth to clean my glasses

nasal decongestant

mini tube of toothpaste

8 bills of assorted dollar amounts

2 money orders, one was an accident

1 paycheck

RECEIPTS

key chains, including the statue of liberty and a hot air balloon, still

am I carrying too much?

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How?

How come when I got off the phone with you I smelled like cigarettes?

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Spotted

Stranger with back breaking sight You saw me You knew Thank you

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holy problems

one day you told me

there was never wrong

what I thought was wrong.

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what is sleep after all?

I grew up jittery

I woke up jittery

I grew up everyone’s problems were mine

I woke up my problems were everyone’s

I ran out of time

I ran out of time

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Photography By Jonathan Kos-Read

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We walk in grace and gradually learn to dance.

Lewis B. Smedes, Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don’t Deserve (via pureblyss)

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Oscar Wilde   (via seulray)

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<3

Sweet relief.

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sentinels.