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you don’t understand i’m a very tumultuous human underneath these sincerely enthusiastic personas, boringly melancholy and very much alone ever since we never left brooklyn behind us just like that with a a tip of the hat a point of the dancer's toe a flick of the non-existent cigarette into the palms a future lover

evergreen

don’t blink

you might miss him falling out of love

with the person you are or the per-

son you were or the person

tomorrow

reading the newspaper’s comic

book section ashing your

cigarette into his

undercooked pan-

cake breakfast

just because he likes 

to do all the things stoners

like to do does not

make him a stoner okay

okay okay then?