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Nick Burns Jul 2010
The smolderdash?  I must confess:
A smolder shouldn't act so fast.
But, killer Queens with judgement passed
can get you headless first and last.

Don't you see this catastrophe
has violently encircled me?
It's  in that turn and descending fall
that my words condescend us, one in all.

Pick me up's and put me down's.
We can't feel the world go 'round.
What a lovely cap and gown,
let's graduate out of this town.

If you think that I am over this,
you better start to pray you're missed.
Smolderdash those fire-pants,
your white-hot lies will never last.
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Nick Burns Jul 2010
If you knew I had you figured out,
you might cease to be.
I see through your encryptions now.
It came so easily.

You're as rare as a Garganey,
but speak in Parakeet.
You're flightless like the Dodo bird,
but, like a Nightingale, you sing.

I thought I saw your body washing
up and down the beach.
Instead I must have seen your ghost
doing a dance for me.

I can't say that I've seen your face.
It remains a mystery.
The next time that you show your face,
I hope that you show me.
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Nick Burns Jul 2010
I just barely realized I can see.
I'll be the better man, I swear I can.
I just barely realized I can see.

I just barely realized I can breathe.
I'll make the best of this broken hand, I swear I can.
I just barely realized I can breathe.

Just barely realized I can see.
Just realized how much you can mean to me.
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Nick Burns Jul 2010
You come around like loops in songs.
I'm always here, but I always seem gone.

You've been eating lies like Christians eat god.
I've been denying that I could ever be wrong.

You make me feel as small as a pin.
I make you feel unimaginably big.

You are a standard held entirely too high.
I'm just another sad sack,  I'm just another guy.
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Nick Burns Jul 2010
over this tree
and under these clouds
is the space between
that she calls home.
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Nick Burns Jul 2010
while every color turns to white,
every color leaves at night.
laying down just feels so right
when i close my eyes to glittersight.
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Nick Burns Jul 2010
I've got mouths for eyes and they'll eat you alive.
There's a plan to catch up and we'll get there in time.
The word's greatest shame is not one to despise.
A boy named Struggle is a boy that survives.
NBURNS 2010
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