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  no heart is as dark as a juiced strawberry

  

  By jokerblues, Columbia, SC

  except mine. when I am just about to fall asleep, last night's dreams wash over me like tea that has been steeping for hours. the feelings drown my lips but leave them chapped. and I am so afraid of drowning, of ending up like the soggy leaves that stick in the soles of hiking boots eve...
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  Bay Lover

  

  By jokerblues, Columbia, SC

  you are the leaves of the bay leaf tree – leaves I want to touch and put in soup. suddenly, the quiet dissolves into the traffic of rain, the leaves bending, taking the hits as crabs take waves from the ocean. to identify your species, I took a book from the bookstore illegally (it was wri...
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  It's

  

  By jokerblues, Columbia, SC

  we walk. it's the first time I've been aware of sweating yet. god, it's pretty hot outside. I think you're a bit tall for me. I'm sifting feelings inside me… now it's sadness, now it's regret, now it's that particular feeling of distance you get after...
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  Walk-out

  

  By jokerblues, Columbia, SC

  the lead actor could not sing. I was not the lead and I didn't pretend I could sing. the piece was in 4 and 13 bars in, I felt like latching onto your neck like a leech and whispering for us to get out of the opera hall. what disturbed me was the dissonance which reminded me too much of ...