"State of Perpetually Wanting to Sneeze"

Hunger, danger
Bloodshot eyes in the mirror
But it's just a stranger

Ten years disappear
Look at my perfect American lawn
I always thought we could've built a good life here

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"Whiteboard"

Handwriting on the whiteboard is much messier than on paper
but my writing persists
and the pen perseveres
until the blunt of a line comes creasing down

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"Lust"

Crushed for years
Suffocating just thinking
Existential questions
Grating me often
You'll never know
And I won't ever say
It's better that way
I wish I told the truth
How much I adore you
Ten thousand times
I could've gotten
To know you better

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"The Apology and the Promise"

Hand me a lifeline,
I'm sorry, already.
Hand me a lifetime,
But this time I'm ready.

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"Temporarily Not Here"

He wilts by his bedside
Writing sad poetry
Over and over again
He leaves the countryside
Just to do the same thing
Over and over again

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