Smile :)

time is nearly up
my heart is quiet
like up at the lake
sleeping on my back under the stars
in the meadow
watching dark clouds pass over my head

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to say “I love you.”

I understand
“I love you”
now
Years have gone by
too full for expression
there aren’t enough words
but to say
“I love you”
is to convey
each moment
of happiness or pain
or laughter or fear
each moment of insecurity
that we left behind
in search of our future
to say
“I love you”
is to say
I know you,
accept you as you are
and open myself up
for all the hurt and [...]

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fuck

you
don’t fuck it up
and don’t use fuck in your poem
or Culwell won’t display your poetry book
or maybe what needs to be said
is that if I could fuck it up any more than it already is
that would make me a gal with talent
maybe I get tired of sweeping and mopping up
around all these fucking statues
completely immobile
smiling [...]

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