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8.5 you tore me like an old poem and I laid on your floor, strewn into wilting pieces and waiting to see if you would write me again.

8 There is no love lost here; these are the mechanics, the parts of you like a machine that could eat up years of my life -- these are the ...

7 it's 3:36 am and I have been crying since 1 and I don't know why but I am choking on myself like a poison. I have been waiting to ...

6 let's not measure tragedy. you know what's tragic? the way that we suppress our love for one another as people, the way that vulnerability becomes a hazard.

it started like this: like old people talking about how the earth spins on little feet, falling in love less with the idea of love and more with the idea ...

4 I could find you in a breath fossilized in a restaurant window, or the fog of a window car, in the parts of the bed where you gripped the ...

3.1 I think that hope feels like dangling your legs. It used to be in the laundromat, white sheets spread out like angels as we folded and placed them in ...

POETRY GODDESS

3 I'm not good with the words, with having a voice, but I heard I make you say hallelujah with a tone so bright that it's like morning or looking ...

For a school project, I recently went to a shooting range to interview some men about guns. One man, Shannon, said that he's been hunting all his life, that, in ...

2.5 sometimes I feel less like a human being, less like a woman and more like a murmur or creak of a floorboard, more like the way that dusk crawls ...

2 after years of reflection, I've begun to wonder why I worship the hand that bruises me like a petal between its fingernail and thumb; fragility is not an offering ...

Hey guys how 'bout we don't turn this thread into a "HEY LOOK AT ME I CAN INSULT PEOPLE BECAUSE I'M COOL HUEHUE" thread, hm? I'm pretty sure I don't ...

1.5 my day opens like a flower; and there you are, like the sun, reminding it how.

KARZ I'M SO HAPPY RN YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW