And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.
NICOLE LYONSYou can’t tame a girl who has her head. In the clouds and one foot out the door.
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I like you here, between commas, where the only thing you can break now, is my lines.
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I think you were my taste of heaven after a lifetime of eating hell.
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I have known love and I have known loss, but in the end, they both looked a lot like you.
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I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.
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Every now and then I roam the catacombs in my head and attempt to resurrect you, and make you shiny again.
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They build ladders from my spine and they climb and they fall and they break me, and they climb again.
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We were electric together, you and me; we turned hurting each other into a goddamned symphony.
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I drink to the ones who can sit with their souls and not wish for sleep and the nightmares it brings.
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On paper I have killed you a thousand times but my heart disregards clever words.
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She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.
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Dance with me. Bring my demons to their knees.
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I still pick at these memories of you; I pick them until they bleed.
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One day I will fall gracefully to pieces. Until then, I’ll just fall.
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I swear if I were to rip myself open, it wouldn’t be blood that poured out of me, it would be him.
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The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.
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I write because suicide is no longer an option.
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He left love letters at my door, and a chalk outline on the highway.
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I drink to the ones that can sit with their souls and not wish for sleep and the nightmares it brings.
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You love so perfectly, as if you have never been told a heart can be broken.
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I have been covered in easy kisses from uneasy lips, and I know I smell weary again.
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Oh my darling, you mustn’t fill up on memories alone, there is heartache and regret yet to be served.
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I have God in my words and the devil in my ear, and a sister who keeps telling me to find my magic.
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Be bold, child. You are rare and you are brazen light.
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He was exactly like hitting a red light during a killer streak of green.
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Poetry is the loveliest art. It has a wretched way of revealing our own character when we think we are judging the poets.
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Every now and then even the sweetest souls burn it to the ground, just to remind the rest of them who exactly they are fucking with.
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