Contributor: Luke Maguire Armstrong
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She’s decided to declare war on midnight,
when she dreams of the railroad and remembers.
A war to crush the dreams of the child who knew cockroaches,
who met them at night when they scurried across her face,
a humiliation to any humanity whose neighbors are the
children who knew rats, whose toes were marked with scars
from the nights when the rats had nothing better to do.
Who was she? Because when she looks into the mirror all
she sees is this woman whose face has wilted, with no one to save,
and no one to save her, so she concludes that the young girl
whose memories she keeps inside her head died
in the desert, just beyond the tracks.
When he’s unkind to himself he overdoses on certain albums,
harmful harmonies whose melodic melancholy makes him feel less alone.
But however we hold ourselves...
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Luke Maguire Armstrong
