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Watering Flowers with Sam
September 9, 2014
The once erupting volcanoes inside
her
turned cold and dormant, hardening her body until she could not sleep
She cried so much that the roaring ocean that once encompassed her limbs Dried up to become a barren desert
You put stars in her eyes but then
burned them all out when you started smoking again
Marlboros, to get the taste of
her Chapstick
off your cracked lips
And she always had sunlight streaming through her veins
but it's been stormy skies ever since Shes ripped them open
The planets that once spun smoothly
have collided dizzily with the meteors inside her head
And she's done her best to nourish
the roses that have replaced her sickened stomach
Because you always told her that She had a green thumb
But I don't think she knows that she can't water flowers with vodka
© Lydia N., Greenfield, IN
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