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let books be your best friend on nights when you feel alone. loving you has been like nothing I have ever felt before. this amazing something I was always meant to do, an emptiness I am always trying to fill. I am certain I will never be full and satiated with you. oh how happy I am to try. I have so many things i want to say to me. I choose not to others I cannot find words for.
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The longer I live in New York
The smaller and smaller it feels
This frightened me until
I realized it was only because
so much of New York was now
inside me.
So I have to make more space.
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the only thing standing in the way of you is yourself and your fears. bliss is sitting in a movie theater with your mom, stuffing your face with dumplings from chinatown, and having your lips stained red from the cherries sold by a street vendor.

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Civil War : Chapter 2 "The Fallout" Feb 6 , 2007
Steph : Hey guys good to see yall again. Like I was saying what is the earth. Hey kid this your life don't waste this shit and live your dreams, don't wait for the perfect time, take your time and make it perfect.
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Everyone is writing a poem, so I am NOT going to do thatbecause I don't feel like it.. no sir instead I am going to write that I am taking a break.And instead will just write have a nice day and don't think too much

- Marina Arabella Davis.
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You smell like coffeeAnd madness -- dug a hole for my new rosemary bush.It will be perfect for my roast chicken widespread arms are not empty, they are full of craving. all that is within for you, is of our satiation saving, our hearts attempt to mourn in the innumerate belaying.-- Lenore M. Rheaume, Poet, Rhode Island

 

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want to drink i want it to seep out my mouth, down my chin
and onto the floor.
i want to look like a vampire.
i do it for the taste, of course this is the only way i can eat what i want.
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A wonderful visit to the city. It was a lonely visit, but one in which I appreciated my own time. I know more than ever what needs to be done... Sometimes I see the world through the eyes of someone else but not through their thoughts. Tell someone what you want them to hear but not what you want to say. Lucy found herself in the city's shadow.
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