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sleeps too much is beastly to loved ones and smiles at strangers doesn't pay bills on time but drinks too much whiskey and beer and sings bad songs on weekday nights when responsibility demands sleep and serenity chaos rules and is welcomed trusts liars and questions truth is used and loved and lost has a fondness for men who play slow like a guitar at a weekend show and walk out with her love tucked in a back pocket like a number from a girl they'll never call takes too many pills not prescribed and too few that are mixed like cheap liquor in a trashcan and guzzled to erase reality is messy and dirty and doesn't wash dishes or clothes or hair nearly often enough craves shoes too expensive and hundred dollar jeans and two dollar shots is disorganized and has messy handwriting sometimes will only drink water from a blue cup and then only with a straw (green) acts like a child most of the time and sometimes more can heal with a touch but generally doesn't go beyond what's necessary sleeps too little and not well has vivid dreams of illogical things that affect waking life a little too much can un-age the aged but goes fetal at the sight of responsibility alienates those who care the most and chooses those who don't dig too deep or care beyond what shot to drink with whom worries too much about what other people choose to think and believe and feel uses makeup to cover scars and darkness has held a dying woman's hand and drank herself into oblivion in an almost stranger's bed has promised to love and cherish till death do you part or three years whichever comes first is a warm glow for a few and a dark room for many more this is she this is her this is me

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008




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