birds

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something odd always strikes me when you smile

(it's quite symmetrical, you should know).

the perpetual question hangs in the air:

why are you doing this? why are you looking at me?


i don't like butterflies. 

they're frail and fragile. they lie and say he loves you.  

but I don't have butterflies right now.

it's more like a bird is trapped in my chest, flapping and fluttering

to be let loose.


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