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to crush and be crushed

January 23, 2015
By agrypnotica SILVER, Piedmont, California
agrypnotica SILVER, Piedmont, California
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Favorite Quote:
"for whenever men are not obliged to fight from necessity, they fight from ambition; which is so powerful in human breasts that it never leaves them no matter to what rank they rise."

—niccolò machiavelli, discourses on livy


i love you,
he tells me
a desperation on his lips like
hoarse screaming
& free-fall

 

that’s unfortunate,
i say.

 

i do not look back.


The author's comments:

Some boy in my science class told me he liked me and I just shrugged.


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