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			<title>by car</title>
			<description>Beloved dark sky you bring out the best and worst in me so..Black Santeria as you take familiar shapesinking deep beneath my anxiety. Every single time I feel this cool sensation of breathing at this hour of night-to-morning I live,Because the air tastes different--and that is a fact.Its my ode to t..</description>
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			<title>scarlet</title>
			<description>Dangerously curious for what lies ahead of me, I know I do not have much of a choice but to carry on.Out of my shelter into this grind field I scan.Like it's the end of the world, and I now must defend all I can. As I breathe out, like smoke from a cigarette I see puffs dancing from my mouth.To the ..</description>
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			<title>split lanes</title>
			<description>Sitting in the drivers seat I felt the darkness coloring me in.Driving forty-eight in a fifty-mile zone, I gaze as cars fly past me going sixty and more, as it's only 2:40 in the morning.Beautiful sight, to see the city nature linger the streets.For them all is safe.Friends waiting as I tell them I'..</description>
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			<title>love</title>
			<description>From within these trenches, spiders have become my closest friends.Another day comes, as another acquaintance goes.Dreams fly aimlessly amongst the air like bullets. Hopes lost hopelessly, hovering above bare bodies like ghosts.To sit atop these trenches, yield us no defense. But to face the sky, in..</description>
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			<title>blue eyes</title>
			<description>You blue eyed creature, how I adore you so.I just want to know you until your existence isn't so much.You 're not my type, not my preference, and in my eyes not even my kind of species.To be honest you're not even your kind of species. Something about that tongue of yours seems to just blow my mind ..</description>
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			<title>starving vegan</title>
			<description>Day break hits, and slaps me terrifyingly hard in the face.As it all begins freshly coated skin is all I can think of.Look at me, to see all is well.&quot;All's well ends well&quot; I feel like I am in hell. Is this where I end? Is this where I start? Was I given to these open eyed creatures for any reaso..</description>
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			<title>I wake up in 4 hours </title>
			<description>It's good to see you when your back is facing towards meand I'm tired of singing to these trees Cause they sing these lyrics back at me.It's been a while, and my taste is becoming quite sour, as we pucker up lips, and squeeze out every single flavor. While sticks, and stones may eventually break all..</description>
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			<title>coffee? tea?</title>
			<description>As we walk lonely in these streets we breatheThis night is dark and no I cannot see.As we begin this just gets harder.We really will not break, we're harder.Come from deep within, show me your colorsI'm many shades of blue, therefor you must be goldNo need for me to realize you're different than oth..</description>
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			<title>the art </title>
			<description>its funny how we're meant to be so lonely, but so full of happy,why is it that I attempted me, but lost in my own tracks and tied that rope to that one tree and never looked backjust like how you are imagining at this very momentI never looked back, I never looked forwardin fact I probably never e..</description>
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			<title>cool sunlight</title>
			<description>Walking along the trails of my familiarity, the air feels like it is peeling my skin. It is almost like I am a snake who is shedding layer, after layer. The cold goes deeper, sinking like a flat stone gliding throughout shallow waters.Taking a glance at the three-inch-long plastic of what I have m..</description>
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			<title>cocoon</title>
			<description>Is it bad to say that I love you? Even if I don't mean to come off so strong.Is it worse because you don't even know,Or is it worse because you do, and still remember who you are.I can watch you from the distance, and never pay more attention to anything else on earth.If you were mine there wouldn't..</description>
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			<title>Fern</title>
			<description>Somehow my titles make sense</description>
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			<title>Teeth</title>
			<description>If I had to make one large synonym about whats been going on lately. (8</description>
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