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I woke up wanting to kiss you,
You woke up wanting to make coffee.
Sitting on the edge of our bed
your spine creaked like all the
rotting floorboards we walked
over every day. I try to make it better,
but I am trying to cure a disease of
your mind with only my two hands.
There is nothing I can do to make
this
better.
There is nothing I can do to make
you
better.
I still remember the way your
lighthouse heart used to show me
the way home every night,
but I’m afraid that we’ve ruined
everything we’ve ever touched
because my ships just aren’t sailing anymore.
So you make your coffee.
I lie back and rest my head on the cool
pillow. By the time you come back
I am already asleep. You curl up next
to me whispering about how coffee
has always made you tired and
even with all that caffeine rushing in
your veins, you fall asleep again too.

I wake up wanting to kiss you.
You wake up wanting more coffee.

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from Spit Fire (Reading at the Hill​-​Stead Museum), released April 19, 2013

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I'm a part time poet and a full time cry baby. If you get too close to me, I'll write a really emotionally confusing poem about you. It'll be exhausting for both of us.

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