Poems from Aubrie Smith
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Today, I found a tiny pink elephant you gave me for my birthday years ago
It probably cost less than a dollar
You'd have never known the...
(written two years ago, in response to the nightclub shooting)
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Tell me about the way his body felt as it pressed against you. Tell me...
the first time we fucked I bled
words onto pages of plain paper;
I learned how to write about red
and how not to write about danger.
the...
A drink fell off the shelf inside
I called for help but no one replied
The voices stopped, the music died
And all was quiet in my mind....
Like words and what they mean, we were
A misunderstanding
You, trying your hardest to sweetly escape
I, contentedly caught in the braid
You...