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time doesn't give a shit

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Published: Nov 10, 2009

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Literature Text

^{i will write you letters in the middle of the night while i
listen to your rampant, cluttered miscommunications
because i know the words would be lost on you --;

how high are you? are you high enough to eat stars?
are you high enough to pretend to listen to me tonight?
i would speak poetically if you could undestand me
but you would have to be tripping over more shallow
crevices then sidewalk cracks to comprehend this

i'm counting syllables and finding internal rhymes
trying my best to let what you say sink in, but this
freeverse poem has my head spinning and i want
to take you by the shoulders and say 'just stop it,
please just stop it' but you like hearing your voice

i'm sitting on a chandallier and you're taking a nap
underneath my floorboards. you and me are fucked
up and flawed but you love thinking you're the only
one with problems, so i'll shut up and listen to you

my heart is an airplane, watching for turbulence.
my blood is lighterfluid, engulfing me in subrogation
my veins are hydraulics, blood clots like aqueducts
my mind are schematics, thinking in biometric numbers
i take my own hand and say 'okay, don't fuck this up'}