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Killing With Kindness

how do you tell the people who love you that their encouraging words and breakfast pancakes and shoulder brushes and wheezing laughter and random dance parties and their all around basic goodness is tightening the noose around your throat until moving the slightest inch could be your downfall
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Hey You

i woke up late last night to shrill ringing. my phone lit up, your contact picture glowing in the dark. i thought about all the times you hurt me and the people who tried to get involved, the people who tried to tell me this is wrong. i thought about your hand on the small of my back, claws coming out every time i opened my mouth. i thought about how much you always smelled like weed to the point that i searched the crowd every time someone smoked. and i answered. like nothing ever happened. like my heart wasn't folding in on itself. is this love?
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Toxic

hair streaked with daggers and iron filling her lungs each breath a shot of poison that makes me want to run but running makes it worse she gets off on the fighting back so i have to stay completely still and be willing to ache and burn and die until the opportunity comes that i can finally hide
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'Round and 'Round We Go

it happened again, i jolted awake with a bloody murder scream burning a hole into my throat. it happened again, i reached out for a hand that wasn't there. it happened again, my heart stopped dead as i realized i was alone.
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Loose Lips Sink Ships

ruffled hair lazy trails ice burning skin this is not my story to tell hushed whispers thundering hearts citrus candles aflame these are not my scars acrylic nails soft sheets light melodic laughs yet my nightmares are filled with nothing else
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Needing A Shot In The Arm

eyes glued to the ground throats cleared and smiles stretched thin they count the patterned tiles one-by-one two-by-two as if the answer will fix my problems
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Combustion

it started down at his feet licking his toes with just bearable heat but then it crawled up and up and up singeing his hair and scarring his lips a raging inferno he couldn't predict what happened? where did this come from? how did it start? who? but all his answers are screams tainted in ashes

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