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3:14am

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3:14 am

Smoking a cigarette and thinking of you

My desire for life to be poetic is going to kill me

Delivery?

A kiss goodnight

Of course it's you
carting around your next victim

Rinse and repeat

Do you touch her like you touched me?

I thought I felt desire emanating from your hands but I guess it was all just a ruse

Play the lonely girl

She'll never know what hit her

But what else should I have expected

In a city full of so many people
I have never felt so (blissfully) alone

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RBynum

Wed 11th May 2016 17:41

Victimizing the nieve, trusting, human... the pain after hits hard when ur in a small town, also. Might even be worse since there's only so many places to go to forget.. Your poem hit me hard, I appreciate it:)

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