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selections from a poetry collection by kat giordano (@giordkat). you can purchase the book at da linky. posts every hour unless i'm testing something. gobpilepress.bigcartel.com/product/pre-or… Joined January 2023

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2 years ago

I'm going to have to ask you to cut that shit out.

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2 years ago

when we left, the geese were being harassed by some teenagers trying to impress each other,

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2 years ago

I read it over and over and try to remind myself it's only a poem,

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2 years ago

13. you're doing a good job, and things will be okay soon.

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2 years ago

your soft lips on hers a wall I spring into every night and wonder why I'm bruised.

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2 years ago

and do you remember how sometimes you'd look over and ask if I was real

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2 years ago

I am the dog and the second you leave, I'll feel my jaw ache for your curtains.

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2 years ago

I think I could have stayed and let this molten want gestate between our bodies into something solid.

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2 years ago

16. please don't hurt yourself tonight.

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2 years ago

and you might think, in light of that, how good are apples, anyway?

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2 years ago

but the pigeons don't have mythos.

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2 years ago

things were still good back then.

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2 years ago

I used to listen to your podcast interviews just to hear your voice.

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2 years ago

you were right, but it didn't end there, and we were never just friends.

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2 years ago

by the time we hit Altoona, I've collected fifteen photos of cows on the side of the highway.

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2 years ago

mallgoers wandered into the road with their bags trying to avoid him.

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2 years ago

I wanted you to frown at me and be like CUT THAT SHIT OUT.

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2 years ago

lighthouse sheets that I know most days, you can't lift yourself out of.

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2 years ago

I spent that year in a state I describe to myself and others as 'illness'-- barely eating, barely sleeping, drinking too much whenever possible and seeking life-affirming validation for my choices from old poets who were basically strangers.