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Amanda

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

18 poems·Since October 2013

I write for the sake of my sanity and I weep for the heart of humanity. #SpreadTheSpokenWord

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Transaction

August 14, 2014

If you're in it

Then own it.

   Every facet

   Every detail

   Every store tag

   Sale or retail

If you bought it

Then own it.

 

And not just the poppin' collar

But the frayed seems too.

You can't have the best of everything

Without taking black and blue.

 

So if you bought that shit 

Rock that shit. 

 

If you're in it

Be in it all the way.

 

Commit your heart

To what your hands are doing.

 

But if your heart can't take the beatings

   Can't take the string pullings

   Can't take the borderline abuse--

Then look at what your hands are doing,

From your broken heart's eyes.

And return that "poppin' collar" 

For a better fitting size.

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