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Class of 2021


Can I bring my eyes out of my face and clean them

Smooth away the exhaustive rattling 

Of a hamster’s wheel

Around and around goes the year 

And dust accumulates under my eyelids 

They have not moved in centuries.  

 
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angreenfields

Alexius, known to their friends as Alex, is currently writing poetry in Minneapolis, MN, USA. They write with heavy metaphor and intense emotion, or at least try to. Their interests include foreign languages, English arts, feminism, and sticking it to the man.

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