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Ribbons
Take it easy baby
 We were never meant to go fast
 Engines roaring, wind blasting
 We weren't meant to experience the tear
 Of freedom
 Just walls
 Four of them to be exact
 My fingers are itching to sink in
 To rip into everyone
 And have the energy bursting out of the tips
 Like magic, like magic
 The tingling in my bones setting out
 With a satchel on a stick over it's shoulder
 To change something
 Make it different
 But maybe not better
 Limbs are shaking
 and she's happy at midnight
 It could all change in one second
 One second of stress
 Your eyebrows coming together
 In that line that means I know what you're thinking about
 Yeah, I know it's not fair
 It's also not fair that you don't know
 Let's start a new paragraph
 Let the words unravel the tendons in my arms
 So they come loose and hang like ribbons
 Pretty and circular
 Like the irises in your eyes
 And the lilt in your voice
 In the darkness
 No light can get here if you shut your eyes
 Not even the pink glow from behind your eyelids
 Just black black black
 I'm going to keep them closed
 Because my hand cannot reach yours
 No matter how hard I try

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