1-slowly

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people don't like to talk about dying.
so to make themselves comfortable they always say,
"we're all dying, just really really slowly."
i've never been one to see it that way, though.

i always feel
like i am falling onto myself
folding like loose leaf paper
my bones clashing into each other
like rain on a window pane.

i am too young to feel this old
this done
this tired.
i wish i didn't feel like 19 was the end
of my course.

it can't be the end,
because i haven't gotten her yet.

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