I still pick at these memories of you; I pick them until they bleed.
NICOLE LYONSI have been covered in easy kisses from uneasy lips, and I know I smell weary again.
More Nicole Lyons Quotes
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You load your words as I bare my chest, and this will be the most beautiful death.
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And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.
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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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He was exactly like hitting a red light during a killer streak of green.
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When I told you that I hadn’t been broken before; it wasn’t a fucking challenge.
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She tasted like wildflowers; crushed, wet wild flowers carried in sticky palms through farmers’ fields, just before dawn.
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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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We were electric together, you and me; we turned hurting each other into a goddamned symphony.
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One day I will fall gracefully to pieces. Until then, I’ll just fall.
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Pleasure or pain; I’ll take either as long as it is laced with passion.
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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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They build ladders from my spine and they climb and they fall and they break me, and they climb again.
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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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He left love letters at my door, and a chalk outline on the highway.
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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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