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get out of my head
you've trespassed
carefully set up tents
of thoughts
with signs that read
keep out
in foreign tongues
stay away
far enough that i can still hear you say
what you can still say from far away
get the fuck out
i can't and won't and don't know
how to make you leave
sleep in someone else's stable
take from someone else's plate
it's fate
no it borders hate
which is so closely linked to love
they walk hand in hand
like brothers
going off to war
like books resting next to each other
living breathing off each other's disease
stop breaking me down
stop building me up
stop everything and nothing
because we both know i want more
and you've always liked to settle the score
you see right through me
all the way past the other side
that's reserved for those who've called ahead
and somehow managed to skip the line
it's been months
but really it's been years
brains strained with pain
tongues tied with twine
lives inexplicably combined
you and i
sit under different stars
and simultaneously unravel and ravel
finger-crossed truths
carefully worded lies
give-ins and take-aways
take-ins and give-aways
all to learn nothing more
but somehow convincing each other
that we have and still continue to
it's a glue high
you and i
it's a glue high
you and i
slow down
press rewind
back track
subtract
go back
it's still a glue high
you and i

(photo by sarah)