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Sharks in the Rivers

  • b3427590287has quoted2 years ago
    We’ll say unbelievable things
    to each other in the early morning—
  • Andreahas quoted3 years ago
    I’ve been walking for a long time,
    and it hasn’t made me smarter or faster
  • Andreahas quoted3 years ago
    I’m chock-full of bad ideas today,
    my foul mouth worthy of a good kick.
  • Andreahas quoted3 years ago
    The song in my head has whiskey in it,
    and a back porch full of rusted nails in mason jars.
    It sounds nothing like the song in your head.
    In fact, that’s the chorus.
  • Andreahas quoted3 years ago
    (Small brilliant hole in the dark, let me out.)
  • Andreahas quoted3 years ago
    She is wearing her changeable season, she is shedding light like feathers.
  • Andreahas quoted3 years ago
    She says not to put the cart before the horse—
    the heart before the course.

    But when she moves, so much light escapes.
  • b3427590287has quoted2 years ago
    She sends me an article from a recent National Geographic that says,

    Sharks bite fewer people each year than
    New Yorkers do, according to Health Department records.

    Then she sends me on my way. Into the City of Sharks
  • Andreahas quoted3 years ago
    World, turn all you want to,
    faster even. I’ve come to like the way the breeze feels
    as it rips me limb from limb.
  • Andreahas quoted3 years ago
    Maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow,
    but this stubborn monster-girl, gone all wrong
    with the river’s sledge, is not
    giving in to your one-way-ness.
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