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And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.

Nicole Lyons

I still pick at these memories of you; I pick them until they bleed.
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Blood Memories Yourself
One day I will fall gracefully to pieces. Until then, I’ll just fall.
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Death Fall Grace Myself Pieces
On paper I have killed you a thousand times but my heart disregards clever words.
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Heart Kill Myself Paper Time Word
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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Attitude Burn Inspirational Soul Sweet Woman
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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Devil God Magic Myself Sister Word
I think you were my taste of heaven after a lifetime of eating hell.
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Eat Heaven Life Myself Taste Thinking Time
You can’t tame a girl who has her head. In the clouds and one foot out the door.
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Tame Woman Yourself
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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Drink Myself Sleep Soul
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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Beautiful Courage Darkness Earth Herself Strange
I think I saw you again in the moonlight tonight, and I swear I could taste the hints of it alll.
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Light Moon Myself Taste Thinking Yourself
They build ladders from my spine and they climb and they fall and they break me, and they climb again.
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Break Build Myself Support
Oh my darling, you mustn’t fill up on memories alone, there is heartache and regret yet to be served.
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Alone Heart Memories Myself Regret Service
I write because suicide is no longer an option.
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Death Myself Option Suicide Writing
I have been covered in easy kisses from uneasy lips, and I know I smell weary again.
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Easy Kiss Lips Myself
The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.
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Comfortable Feeling Myself Pain
I will not force a pretty smile upon my face to please eyes that no longer see me.
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Eyes Face Force Myself See Smile

And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.

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