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9

they text until
she falls asleep
for a month long
the sparkle stays in
his eyes and he
doesn't even think
about looking
at other girls
but then
they text until the month
is up
and she wonders what
happened to the green eyed boy
made of sunlight and stars and the
aurora borealis
while he's playing shows
and killing the flowers she
planted inside of him in a
different hotel room in
a different city each day
he replaces the soil with
stone cold cement and
builds over the garden
she made
he wants to forget her name
so he drinks and drinks
and drinks but the only
names he forgets are his
own and the one of the
new girl he kicks out of his
room each night
three months later he's home
and he's sitting in the basement
of his childhood house
he's drunk
and he hovers over her contact
and starts to type out a message
'i miss you'
but it's never sent