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From a Basement On the Hill
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I'm not sure what I was doing When you became the cliché That I couldn't leave unwritten,
Nor can I say where I was When you crept above the trees, Past clouds and cities and oceans
And barking dogs, or who I was with When I recognized that it was your face That had been watching me while I slept.
I don't know what song I was listening to, Or what I was saying, or if I was saying Anything at all when you first shook out
That white silken sheet and tucked me in -- Refusing to say goodnight Until I had closed my
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Funny MathI think I found the best problem for all my solutions she said unwittingly.Funny Math
Drunk, tweaked, or a little too alive, seventeen, maybe twenty-six.
I thought, She is in no position to be doing computations,
and used the warped reflection from between the numbered circles
to straighten my tie.
The humming turned to whining and gravity forgot itself for a slow moment before the doors receded to reveal floor fourteen.
My floor.
She was seventeen, maybe twenty-
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Post MortemIf, when I die, there are answers in my stomach,Post Mortem
my liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, or bladder,
a doctor whose hand I will never grip against my own
will lift apart my chest like an old bulkhead--
once inside he will poke, slice, and surgically remove each question,
sewing me back up like a teddy bear being restuffed.
If this happens, try not to think of it as me when he holds the door and tells you,
You'll have to leave the room now, ma'am.
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<caveatLECTOR>and jon beat me to uranus LOLOLOL
<concrete-surfer> your mom depreciates in value as she's traded
<intangebility> o man. pink is singing sweet dreams on tv atm, and madeline says "string trees are made of peas?"
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Gone beneath my wheels,
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It's free and every nitwit such as myself who enters gets a small gift
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