Having Already Walked Out On Everyone I Ever Said I Loved
SHABBY DOLL HOUSE (the early years) NextIndex Having Already Walked Out On Everyone I Ever Said I Loved By Hera Lindsay Bird with artwork by Emma Ensley I pause for a moment at your door And consult my fate This life is more stupid than even I could have hoped for Every day a search party gets lost in the snow With no-one to dig them out again I have tried for too long to act in ways that seem reasonable Yet somehow, this makes me double-unreasonable Like flicking someone’s bra-strap at a coroners inquest The official theme of this poem is The official theme of all my poems which is You get in love and then you die O write it in rhinestones on the lid of my coffin Some people are too hard to be lived without Once upon a time I used to feel like............huh But then I started to feel a little more like..................................uhuh Once upon a time I used to feel like.................?? But then I started to feel a little more like.................................??????
Having Already Walked Out On Everyone I Ever Said I Loved By Hera Lindsay Bird with artwork by Emma Ensley I pause for a moment at your door And consult my fate This life is more stupid than even I could have hoped for Every day a search party gets lost in the snow With no-one to dig them out again I have tried for too long to act in ways that seem reasonable Yet somehow, this makes me double-unreasonable Like flicking someone’s bra-strap at a coroners inquest The official theme of this poem is The official theme of all my poems which is You get in love and then you die O write…
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