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"I wore an anklet cursive of Libra
so dentists and mall security guards could tell me astrology wasn't real and neither was Roswell the alien head pendant ringed my neck. I emptied gumball machines of their ancient Norse runes and peace signs because if I couldn't be an astronaut I would weigh myself with the world." Vertical Divider
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"a why is a carnation after the fact
why bobby pins pinged to the floor like sonar why the boys class in their Dick Tracy coats and hats felt the need to touch backstage our satin cuffs why the wrong of it rang crisp as lunar orbit why enough hairspray was never enough" From "Ballet Recital"
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"I chased the full moon with a camera that could have exposed so much so slowly that starlight alone could provide all the light the world needed, but I lost both camera and moon."
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"You've read--wings are wings,
swan or angel. Girl wings, skin stretched, orange thread, over cast stitch. Do girls wear orange? Or make an office of it? |
