I'm being quite honest when I say that this is not a poem. Anything but, in reality.This is me shouting out to the universe for a moment about people and places and days that matter.This is a thank you note to fathers because even if I'm never quite sure if mine is in the same state as me, that's alright because he still...

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I'd like to have a few words with you. Nothing to worry about, I assure you. Just a thought, really. Something that's been on my mind. And it never hurts to ask, right? That's what they told me at least. (it was on the handout they gave me on "how to be your best self") Just spit it out, you say? You've got...

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things that are scary: 1.  numbers on waistbands 2. numbers in textbooks 3. statistics about sad things that are real life 4. songs for people & places & days that used to be 5. missing a spot 6. jumping off of tall things, bridges in particular 7. silent treatment from mom 8. knowing you deserve it 9. not-so-flat stomachs 10. no new notifications...

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Oh but darling, what if we were allowed to say no? As if  we were whatever we wished to be. As if she called the shots. As if poetry wasn't an assignment and we all found ourselves  because we went looking and not because someone older & wiser tapped you on the shoulder. As if I didn't mind coming home to an unmade...

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-go off-roading (preferably in lambert)-give your mom detailed descriptions of your day thus far-make cookies-pinterest-flirt in the parking lot-watch old "the office" episodes-read your scriptures-don't go to haunted houses-put thoughts down on paper-start a foundation, pick any disease off of wikipedia as long as nobody else has dibs-kiss a boy that's bad for you-go to church-walk the dog-photograph tibblefork-watch "the parent trap"-people watch-make...

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You've got tired eyes.Bitter eyes.I-think-I-ought-to-try-coffee eyes.Business call eyes.Blue-ink-only eyes.You've got slow eyes.Honey eyes.Backstory eyes.Unread-answers eyes.Blanket eyes.They-won't-miss-us eyes.You've got busy eyes.A-thousand-words-in-your-pupil eyes.High noon eyes.You've got proud eyes.Royal eyes.Going-places eyes.Sunrise eyes.You've got bright eyes.Ready eyes.Been-there eyes.Thursday-evening eyes.Calculating eyes.Summit eyes.& I think I'd like them to be mine. ...

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I woke up with sugar fermenting on my tongue, and a letter from you in my hand. I woke up with questions & answers that don't match and ideas that don't belong. I woke up with runs carved through my mind, and trembling hands. I woke up with one name on my lips and another hovering in my thoughts. I woke up and...

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