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a cigarette burns the night sky
Rubber band legs and cotton candy brains Steadfastness left trashed when I let the time pass too fast. In just a minute, the whole world can pass; while hours can drift by with nothing on full blast. I light up a cigarette in bed, looking at the glowing stars above my head. They’re clinging to…
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circuitry
This buzzing current is always there, as if it came out of thin air. Not just one, but two: one that’s orange, and one that’s blue. I conduct complementary colors like a circuit, too much of one and I’ll blow it. But, sometimes I want to float in a neon tangerine, or sink into a…
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here and there
I pick up a few things here and there, but also leave a trace; ghosts of me in the air. In LA, I picked up a fondness of graveyards and blond hair. A carefree and summery me will stay baked into a few golden August days in Capri. In Normandy, I left behind a girl…
Allie Hutchison, PhD 