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so forget everything i've ever said about love. you think it can change you but it can't. you think you'll get what you give, but you won't. so i'm just going to not let myself be "with" someone for awhile and keep going to parties and getting drunk and kissing boys several years older than me. it feels better that way. and they tell me that's what ( Read more... )

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my mother went to dinner and told me that she'd come back afterwards to get my present. i've stayed up waiting for her. it's 12:09 now, and i think she forgot to call ( Read more... )

so we broke up. while sharing frozen yogurt. i now look forward to many days of puffy eyes, losing weight i can't afford to lose, writing lousy poems, and using up my handy tube of waterproof mascara. but she took my razor, and he took my pulse. all i want to do is listen to Mazzy Star and kill myself. but don't lie and tell me you love me; i only ( Read more... )

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Lowered down like a casket
and buried just below her chest.
"Whatever I was searching for,
it was never you," she says.
The record ended long ago,
we go on dancing nonetheless.

I opened like a locket,
"If you're ever cold," I wrote,
"there's warmth inside me.
I'm the pocket of an old winter coat."
But where she used to say "I need you."
Now...."I

last night;

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they don't know I used to sail
the deep and tranquil sea.
but he washed ashore,
and he took my pearl,
and left an empty shell of me.

and hey, i try really hard for you. maybe one day you'll see.