And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.
NICOLE LYONSOn paper I have killed you a thousand times but my heart disregards clever words.
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The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.
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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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They build ladders from my spine and they climb and they fall and they break me, and they climb again.
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You can’t tame a girl who has her head. In the clouds and one foot out the door.
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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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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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The tide has pulled the storm from my soul again. But in all that is right or wrong and pure, there is you, and your stunning ability to blur the lines and just be.
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On paper I have killed you a thousand times but my heart disregards clever words.
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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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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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You load your words as I bare my chest, and this will be the most beautiful death.
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I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.
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He left love letters at my door, and a chalk outline on the highway.
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Be patient with me, dear heart. The art of loving is a peculiar business when one has spent an eternity hating themselves.
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Some souls were never meant to be content.
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