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3000 miles

May 5, 2016
By BrightStar24 SILVER, Falls Church, Virginia
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“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

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3000 miles overseas,
it would take a million bees
to carry me over the ocean,
make you my possession,
fit you in my suitcase,
stuffed between the fruit cake.
I miss you honey, babe, girlie.
Miss being weird,
Pretending we had beards.
Oh, If I’d stayed longer… Maybe, baby.

© Jaime M., Wichita Falls, TX

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Based on my life across the sea. 

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