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I've Got

March 19, 2013
By LovelyVagabond PLATINUM, Dove Canyon, California
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I’ve got a typewriter that is missing an ‘e’ key,

a crumpled clove cigarette in my back pocket that I will never use,

books on how to be alone and books on places that never have existed,

I’ve got a mug from Canada filled with day old black coffee,

and a mind full of half baked nonsense,

I’ve got a mouth that says everything but the truth,

and a black chasm of a heart thats surrounded with barbed wire fences,

But I don’t have extra string to sew myself back together.

© Matt F., Pierz, MN

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Things that seem like they matter, once your looking at them don't seem to matter anymore.
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