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  Guilt

  

  By ShelbyDeWeese, Chattanooga, TN

  Guilt is the sour taste of fluorescent lights in a laundromat in a part of town you swore you’d never even visit but now you live in a flat just above that tiny, wretched place with the daughter you never wanted waking each morning to the thick smell of wet clothes brought in at ...
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  Apricot Jam

  

  By ShelbyDeWeese, Chattanooga, TN

  I slather my sorrow in apricot jam, Certain that this breakfast together will be our last. I say nothing, you say less. I stand to go, biting my lip and breathing silent apologies. But you beckon me closer, And as you kiss me, I feel jam trickling down my fingers And I feel the pulse of your...
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  what i want my words to do to you

  

  By ShelbyDeWeese, Chattanooga, TN

  i want them to show you just what you do to me. but language is failing this wordsmith for the first time and it’s all because of you. once, words were enough to describe my happiness, my fear, my day-to-day. but my words are not enough for you. you are a beautiful spirit, one of tho...