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i know what's in my heart, i need to bring it back into my chest

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Natalie Jean, Chrysalis, 2023.

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call and tell me your latest reflection

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i bruised something ineffable

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In my country having the hiccups means that someone is talking about you.

i wish i believed this. you think of me, speak about me, my body spasms. i'd always have a chorus of hiccups running somewhere on earth.

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i've had the same case of hiccups since 6 pm last night. someone come kill me

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prefacing meetings and calls with a warning that i've had hiccups since last night. humiliating.

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what vegetables did you eat growing up to become such a profound adult?

unfortunately not many really. i was a veggie hater like lots of kids are. but i did have lots of honeydew melon and pears and apples. maybe i absorbed some profundity from them. maybe the sweetness made me remember something

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sought, saved, sucked

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i've had the same case of hiccups since 6 pm last night. someone come kill me

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hi

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just grew my first thorn

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when the feature sounds like a sample from decades ago.... warmth for my veins

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i think youre sitting on the remote. can i check

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out of breath. come give me some of yours.

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what on god's browning earth