swallowing coins

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you drew dolphins on my eyelids just to watch them swimwhy didn't you draw them on yours since you're the one who has the ocean in your eyesmy eyes are like mud;always wet and thicki'm writing this on my old salmon-colored diaryloud sirens outside...

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you drew dolphins on my eyelids just to watch them swim
why didn't you draw them on yours since you're the one who has the ocean in your eyes
my eyes are like mud;
always wet and thick
i'm writing this on my old salmon-colored diary
loud sirens outside the cloudless night
the moon copying the sun's color and turning into a shade of orange
vermillion
i've now just realized i've lost my handwriting over the summer
i was too busy dancing on the disco lights with you.

scratched the inside of my skull
polished the ancient ruins of my mind
mountains transforming into borne dust
i can't believe you're leaving so soon, mon tournesol
we still haven't rode pink elephants like we said
and jump off a celestial waterfall while singing our favorite song
stay longer, lover
or at least stay until our summer nights disappear in the hands of the next season.

mother told me to sleep at midnight
but she knew i needed my chromatic harmonies playing to relieve me
from all the spells you've casted on me
but she still captured them and placed it in her cauldron
so i fiddled with my coins
mother told me to stop,
and this time i listened
i swallowed the quarters and dimes and wished for a money tree to grow in my stomach
but instead i ended up being in the hospital and got my throat removed
oh how stupid i was to wish for something so vain
and how hopeless a water lover was to love its meteoric fire enemy with her black liquid heart.

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