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taller people, shorter expectations

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i.
she thinks that if her heart
were any bigger, all her blood would pool
at the bottom and drown out the pictures
of Mark
she's been too heartbroken exhausted to throw out.
and she thinks that maybe then when she makes
pretty words in her skin,
it'd make the mess a lot easier to clean up.
she's practical like that.

ii.
sometimes she gets lost in the sky
and calls it the ocean, because whenever
she looks at the clouds, she always sees
seahorses and pollution.
if she wishes any harder, her star will implode
please god, make me beautiful.

iii.
when she was young, she ued to think that
infinity was eight years, because if she turned her head
it looked kind of like a lazy eight.
once, a boy told her that he'd love her.
when she asked him how long,
he said infinity.
turns out, infinity is seven months,
seventeen days
and ten minutes.

iv.
if you ask a kindergartan boy what
he wants to be when he grows up,
he'll say president.
ask a kindergarten girl what
she wants to be when she grows up,
and she'll say ballerina.
ask a boy with cancer what he
wants to be when he grows up,
and he'll say
alive.

v.
some nights when she can't sleep, she lays her hand
against her chest, and wishes for a bigger heart
so she can feel the thump-thump-thump of being alive.
but i guess she knows that a smaller heart
is better than no heart at all,
and she's always made a better cowardly lion than
she has tinman.

vi.
please god, make me something worth living for.
when you grow taller, you start expecting less and less from the world.
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BlueDreamer77's avatar
I like this very much and love all the different perspectives and what they/she want.