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I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ..."
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What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?
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There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place
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We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that
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With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.
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It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.
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Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?
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Everybody’s got a mean side. Just don’t feed it till it grows.
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We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.
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