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March 21, 2015 11:31am UTC

Drabble #47 – Eye Wrinkles
Let’s talk about the meaning of life (get all existential with each other). You can hold my hand and I can pretend to hate it. Let’s sit together on a Tuesday night and just mess around, tweak with the dials on our limits and test the waters of our tear ducts. Let’s get the steps out of the way and remember how to dance. With names like ours we don’t even have to ask. Just break and break again, rebuilding ourselves in the shadow of each other so we always resemble someone dear in the mirror.

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March 19, 2015 7:25pm UTC

Drabble #44 – Fall with certainty (soft as simplicity)
There are approximately 206 bones in the adult human body and I can feel every single one chattering beneath my skin when I’m around you. Our left lung is slightly smaller than our right in order to make room for the heart, and I think it’s just going to have to get used to the squeeze. I can feel you taking up all the space in there. Touch the soft webbings of my fingers, my skin longs for you there. I want to love the sweet truths right out of your lips, but I’ll take what I can get from you.

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March 15, 2015 9:57am UTC

One day, I happened to bump into a jellyfish. I asked the jellyfish where it was going. The jellyfish said that it wanted to go someplace warmer, but it can’t go there just like that, so it didn’t know how to answer my question. It said that it was just a tiny jellyfish that goes wherever the waves push it. Someone once said: “If you use yourself, you won’t be able to finish cooking a meal,” And then asked me if I liked jellyfish dishes. After seeing the terrified look on Jellyfish’s face, I didn’t want to reply, “I love eating spicy jellyfish dishes,” So I said to the jellyfish, I too feel like I am drifting towards somewhere. I hate this, how my body feels like it’s losing its memory. Because it can’t remember anything, it feels very sad. I am like you as well… a jellyfish that is stuck in old memories and drifting towards somewhere. I asked, “Do you like jellyfish dishes?” Jellyfish replied “What are you talking about? It is the same as debris washed away by waves. Just a simple jellyfish, why would you ask it questions like that?” The jellyfish then lit a cigarette and slowly drifted towards an unknown place. The jellyfish left while asking me to try new Belmont cigarettes and then, like a puff of smoke, slowly vanished. I’m leaving my memories behind and floating away like Jellyfish to a scary place. This was only a vague wisp of an encounter in the dusty corner of our consciences. We dreamed. We ate. We spoke. We laughed.
We laughed.

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February 21, 2015 12:21am UTC

Drabble #46 – Singing songs (just to sing the songs)
I’d never realized how reliant on my alarm clock I had become until I didn’t have it. It unnerved me more than it should have, knowing that I would just wake up at any time. What if I slept more than I needed to? What if I slept forever? What if I never woke up? I don’t know what my parents would do. Maybe they would regret borrowing my alarm clock for the night. Maybe they would regret not borrowing it sooner. They’d never say that out loud but it would linger on their breaths, a sin mouthwash couldn’t cleanse the lie out of.

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February 19, 2015 7:17pm UTC

Reflections in Puddles
The moon is no longer out tonight,
So I’ll howl at you if I can.
You stole her from the sky.
My, oh my, you were a hungry man.
A whirlpool exists in your lungs,
But you’re past the beginning.
There are miles of water between us,
Time to start swimming.
Crunch down like smooth seas,
Listen to the water not make a sound.
That silence will consume you,
Silly man, you are drowned.
The moon is inside of you now,
And she’s got a bit of a bite.
“Shh, now,” She whispers,
“This is not conducive to the night.”

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February 18, 2015 2:05pm UTC

Lin: "What’s going on here?"
Kamaji: "Something you wouldn’t recognize. It’s called love."
-Spirited Away

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February 14, 2015 7:24pm UTC

Drabble #45 – Purple stars (they're in your eyes).
You sigh like a receding tide, all smooth seas and soft waves. But your touch is that of a traffic-clogged highway, quick and bustling, sweeping through your body and then settling out. I could fire shots into the sky for you until I run out of bullets or I get tired, but I would still be left with the gun. It’s the price of recklessness. I could love you hard enough for it to leave marks on your bones, hard enough for you to walk away, but I would still be left with my hands. These palms have already memorized the feel of your touch, and I don’t want them to forget it.

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January 29, 2015 9:42pm UTC

x
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This city cracks the egg
Over a bright blue pan,
And bursts the yolk to bleed
Golden across your skies.
This city can love you good and kind
If you just give it your lips,
And let it kiss you full and well—
But do not wince when the love goes down
A little too hard; a little too warm.
This city sleeps with one eye open,
And you should too—
Count the hearts it breaks,
The suns that might not rise.
This city is an ode
To insurmountable invisible walls
That tough it through the winter,
But shake at the tremble in your hands.
This city cuts across the land
Like a scar the world is ashamed of—
Ripping open and pouring out
All of the asphalt in your heart.
This city is unforgiving.
It lashes out in rainbow tones
And bruise-purpled hands.
Again and again and again.

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January 19, 2015 9:02pm UTC

"You are like that, a moon, and then the night sky around the moon, a violet-blue made whole by phases as the moon tries to submerge itself and fails."
― Tess Gallagher, You Are Like That

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January 18, 2015 7:18pm UTC

There's a pier and a pile of fishing lures,
a boat and whiskey in the air.
There's too many hushed drips of names
and watered down questions.
There’s waves tugging at the sides of my gut
and there’s your lips sucking down the ocean.
Drip. Poke.
Are you still there?
I really shouldn’t have swallowed those nickels.
Salt water corrodes metal, indeed indeed.
You shut a door- a light shutters out.
Hushed drips. Pushed slips. Splash!
The water is cold this time of the year,
be a black seal and slip through the crevasses.
Quick, the shutters are closing faster.
Click.

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January 16, 2015 10:18pm UTC

There are times where I want to do something really crazy,
something totally unlike me and completely life-changing.
But then I remember that this is not a book on my shelf.
There is no cliché for me to fall back on and make everything okay.
There can be a bad ending to this story. This is my life.

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January 12, 2015 6:44pm UTC

Drabble #42 – Dragon
Close your eyes and I’ll give you this story:
Stick your hand into your chest and pull out your heart. See if it matches the color of your cheeks. There are two monsters in your gut, and one of them does not belong to you. Everything casts a shadow; remember this even though you told me in a dream you aren’t afraid of anything. We’ll cut into those who leave you jaded, you poor little thing. Recklessness is considered beautiful for a reason, so no, I will not hold back.
But you want a better story, don’t you? We all do.

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January 10, 2015 6:40pm UTC

The corner of the house slightly blocked the setting sun, making it look like an orange with a few sections missing. I tilted my head, and the orange disappeared. I tilted it back.

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January 4, 2015 2:48pm UTC

Drabble #43 – Fingers drumming down your skin (shaking up your heart)
Hey, your heart has its eyes closed. Should I make a ruckus? I bet you want someone on the straight path to success but I’ll be crooked. Tortured me poised, I’ll show you your crimes, I’ll mix you up. Push me hard into the sunset; you’ll only burn and I’ll glitter across the horizon. But why are you being distant? You’re a bit blue these days. Come, tie your shoelaces and run with me. How does it feel to live for yourself? The diamonds shaking across your skin, they’re free to shimmer through your hair and trace the patterns plotted on your skin.

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January 3, 2015 1:12pm UTC

Have you ever been trying to format a quote and it isn't working and you're just like: I will scream, I will rip my arm off and shove it down my throat, I swear I will, I hate this.
I don't know, maybe it's just me.

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January 2, 2015 5:59pm UTC

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay
and you tell them you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.
― Richard Siken, Crush

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January 2, 2015 5:28pm UTC

Dialogue Practice #2
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“…What did you just say?”
“It’s from some ancient romance play we did last year. Terrible stuff, honestly. The playwright probably didn’t even know what love was.”
“Well, do you?”
“Maybe, if you’re here.”

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January 2, 2015 1:27am UTC

Drabble #41 – Sleeping Pill
It’s 4am, and a voice is murmuring against my ear like sin, like sleeping pills. I do not say anything, because you’re picking at the threads of another conversation I don’t want to have, but we don’t mention that. You’re so afraid of silence, afraid of the thoughts that lurk there and the off-chance that I might get the courage to say them. “Go to sleep,” you whisper, a smile ghosting around your lips, as if were that simple. Can’t, I almost whisper back, you’re all I see when I close my eyes. Almost.
“Scared of the dark?”
Something like that.

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January 1, 2015 3:09pm UTC

Drabble #40 – Where the asphalt flowers grow.
You live in the cracks of rock on spray-painted concrete in Hong Kong. You live in the bikes and cars riding in the early morning rush hour of New York City. You live in the gold flecked domes on top of painted beauty in the churches of Moscow. You live in the purple tulips blooming in the shade of the Eiffel Tower. You are a fleeting whisper of something special in my 3am thoughts. You are here, and now. You are everywhere. You are the world, my world. That’s where you live. You are the cuts of inspiration I get in the spaces between seconds. You live in those spaces.

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January 1, 2015 1:37am UTC

Dialogue Practice #1
“Do you remember those trampolines everyone had when we were younger?”
“Yeah, mines all grown over now. Hard to imagine all we cared about then were toys. I can distinctly recall my mom handing me this Disney princess ball like she was giving me the world.”
“Maybe she was.”
“No... No, she gave me my childhood, and left me to carry it on my own.”

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