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mismatched-misfits

Published: May 23, 2013

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_{we were as broken as they come,
a ball-joint doll with no joints and a sailboat without any sails.

you had places to be and worlds to see.
all i wanted was to sit on your deck
and have a single place to rest
while the world changed around me.

but the winds came
and i was thrown to the arsenic waves.

you said you never stopped searching,
but you never sent out the lifeboats either.}

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