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Know That This Is Where It Ends
dmartin

Every nightmare speaks now or never.
 1
 
 
The remedy for bad luck
 2
was never a broken mirror duct taped back together.
 3
 
 
But we create the circumstances,
 4
every instance tested in the latest romance film,
 5
and I board a plane if I ask and you reply no.
 6
 
 
The great scheme of things put me against the world,
 7
this is an off-beat path to hell, with a quick stop in heaven,
 8
and you're in the driver seat,
 9
cutting off all the other loners traveling the same path.
 10
 
 
Hearts do not have reset buttons,
 11
and love isn't just some game.
 12
But you press my buttons,
 13
promising that it's different this time,
 14
when all it is, is one bullshit thing after another.
 15

15 Mar 05

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In S2 - if you're in a plane, you need a pilot. You've got something fresh - hearts without reset buttons, cool. I'd really like to see you develop as a poet. You've got the ability to create fresh things, it's just lost under some of the stuff you don't know yet. Really, get some good books, and a poetry workshop IRL, or even a book about the mechanics of writing poetry.
 — ka
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