The loss leader

I'm filing these outcomes
In alphabetical order

To appreciate these moments
After they've been forgotten

I'll hold onto the smell
After the faded photo

Fails to evoke what you had in mind
And what was agreed upon

There'll be no new notes to make
Across a torn border

No reminders needed about
How far we've come

We know in our blood
How much further

We ...

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You Little American

Foreign policy decisions
In the dessert order

Racism apparent in
Choice of flavors

History of oppression
In the name of your team

Conscience of a colonizer
Evidenced by your sneeze

Making love like
A clumsy army

Small talk in a scene
From a hulu series

Choosing friends based
On their utility

Vacationing like
An olympic team

And you tell me
Ha...

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The Next Assignment

The names will be different

The faces the same

There'll be a desk with a printer

And a lot of people in pain

You'll share the laughter

You'll cry over your check

Mondays will still be Monday

You'll have the weekend

And those thoughts in your head

Those terrible thoughts in your head

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Ex-introverts

Lot of explaining to do

Lot of catching up

Now that they've gotten

A taste of who they are 

There's a world to celebrate

Every hidden flaw

A net full of people

To explore meaning through

If they weren't abused as a child 

They will be as an adult

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Pyromaniacs on the event horizon

I'd give you fire if you could use it
We could burn trouble for a while

Take you to the room full of secrets
Make love to you just for a smile

I've spent my life entirely naked
Wearing arms around my chest

Sending flares to the event horizon
Asking for a little help

Rescuers come in uniform
Blankets and trucks make a mess

Never waiting for th...

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Pace

Make it faster

Don't think about it

Want to see the ground 

Blur under my feet

We know it can't last

Drive me harder

There'll be a pain

To remember at least 

All those faces, 

Those lives

Full of

Unexplored feelings

When accelerated 

You get 

A nice design of 

Colors and screams

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Dirty

It's dirty everywhere

It's filthy 

the smell

I don't think will leave

You should see yourself

You should see me 

Our composures left

Before we could

There's no alternative

No experts

We need to start to dig 

With our fingernails

It's inevitable

We could feel it

We stuck around

Out of fear and habit

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These appetites fall on a spectrum

From the base to the obscure

Leaving us in the middle 

Hungry and insecure

You dive to the right

I fall to the left

Something aligns behind our eyes

At best, it's a guess

At one thousand miles an hour

The planet spins 

Our bodies both moving and inert 

Take the hits

Into the middle of the spectrum

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Today was desperate

Tomorrow's out of your grasp

Give it everything you got

Every chance is your last

Memorizing pieces of plot

Don't help the act

Curtain comes down

On your sleight of hand

If you could change anything 

You'd ask for a cigarette and a mask

Is that a second-line you hear

Every chance is your last

The girl appear...

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They put me in a shape that didn't fit 

I'm not out of shape; just out of it

Hit me once just to try it 

It was a hit so they milked it

We go from indifference

To bursting at the seams

A glitch of biology

Without meaning

Start the discussion

About the shape of the room

The emotional repercussions 

Of all those angles 

Cornering me a...

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Oh! the people 

You'll meet

Who will go 

Through you

What'll stick

Who'll leave

Monuments 

Under surfaces

It's a wonderful 

Thing she says 

To no one 

In particular

While looking 

For an actor

To fit the costume 

She keeps

In the back 

Of her closet

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Bandcamp

Others 

We dedicate our lives to others

In an uneasy truce

Helping them in our thoughts 

They respond by giving us work

And we ask for more

And they ask for more

An escalation 

Without pause 

Everything's gone

Dangerous and beautiful

We're left trying to remember

How everything worked

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