

the citrus kingdoma clock strikes midnight.the citrus kingdom
the warmth begins in my toes until my cheeks are flushed i take a long sip of confidence and let my fingers brush the wrist of a strange boy i've never met. i bend, arch my back, stretching for a lemon. my neck near his mouth i feel him inhale, exhale. hot breath the parting of lips. i move back and bite the lemon and he watches.
it's sour but i never wince at the electricity it sends through my veins
streaming aching screaming to intertwine
with his and make a map of a place i've never been
but have always wanted to go. &n


don't forget the seasonsi slid my freezing hands up in to your coat sleeves even though those arms made no motion to hold me back and i knew that i shouldn't get close just to be pushed away but you didn't move and for a moment i thought that maybe you had changed your mind and remembered what i had said: after every winter, no matter how bleak, there always comes a springdon't forget the seasons
cold palms on hot wrists wrists i used to feel bending on the curves of my waist now limp and unresponsive to my touch so i wrapped my fingers around them and dug my nails in to your skin don't you feel me at all? i wanted yo


"Change" Is SubjectiveI don't see Change the same way as everyone else around me Though I've heard about it in the news, on the front page of every paper On the bumper stickers of cars I've followed home So much that the idea of it is playing on repeat in my head But I'm still not buying that brand of Buzzword."Change" Is Subjective
Political parties are shifting Racial barriers are blending Hope for an entire nation A collective holding of breath, crossing of fingers Eager to pass off the responsibility of undoing what was done right under our noses While the only thing we felt we were able to Change these past eight y
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