i pretended to believe your lies,
because i didn't want to embarrass you.
but you became so happy with yourself,
and thought you deserved to be an oscar nominee.

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PoetryPoetry & very short stories. Some are real, some are fantasies. // #11 in Poetry (February 24th 2016) Cover by the amazing @sighstiles
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i pretended to believe your lies,
because i didn't want to embarrass you.
but you became so happy with yourself,
and thought you deserved to be an oscar nominee.