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the_last_time_i_saw_you
notme i think, was it?
when we took care of your hampster
and he got out of his running ball
and somehow squeezed through
the crack in the linoleum
by the hot water tank in the laundry room
the old home
but when you came back to pick him up
he came out of the hole
i remember you standing on the
cobbley stone steps
and i remember you at grandma's when i was small and you seemed so much bigger and older
we played together skipped down the street
someone stubbed their toe and swore was that you? i think i remember it seemed funny
everyone had popeye cigarettes sitting
on the grass pretending to smoke and grandma's flowers around us perfuming the haze of a summer memory

do you ever think about your cousin?

now your sister is rich lives
in hawaii amazing tales i haven't seen her since that time i bumped into her on granville street
'great to see you again just playing some music reading poetry waiting for the cambie bus love your hair like my rings oh it was an old dress before i fixed it'

my mom was talking with your dad today
i hear you're living in europe now
you had a dinner before you left
won't be back probably for a long while
so i wonder what your life is like sometimes
i hear you're doing great things
your footage from japan is all over the news today
from texas to australia
in china glasgow peru iowa london and germany
i was reading the papers online
i hope what you're doing stops the killing
i was told on the phone i might find your picture if i check google
do you look at all the same as i
remember?
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Zoe i dropped you off at the hotel. you were with people who hated me, so i couldn't tell you bye. you came downstairs with me to get some stuff from my car. i really thought i'd see you again, so i didn't bother telling you bye. bye... 031030
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onemorebumpintheroad the last time i saw you i tried you to hug you, but you wouldn't hug me back. now we'll never get another chance. never have a chance to kiss you goodbye, but i see you every night in my dreams. you're always alive again. is this your way of staying with me? i hope so. i miss you so much 031030
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Afro You actually made me stay at a hotel, how sad is that? Before I left though, we talked and actually said we would see each other again soon. Part of me knew that it would never happen, but part of me wanted to. As I drove home, I thought alot about that visit. It was truly pathetic. Neither of us wanted to hang on to our relationship the way we were. So, that was the last time. Who would've thought that four years would've ended that way? But, stranger shit has happened. It was for the best. 031112
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nomatter We shared our first [library parking lot with my siter watching and you wearning that shirt] kiss 031112
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O_A You put your arms around me and hugged me. You pulled me close and I treid to resist, but I wanted to feel your arms around me. The last time I saw you, I looked at you with everything I feel in my eyes, and you noticed. You saw all that want and love swirling in my eyes and I had to hide my eyes away. The last time I saw you, you claimed my soul. 031113
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lenore you were angry with me. but not really. i think you were just playing. i think. but i hope the next the time i see you i can make it better. 031113
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shinequwa you were standing by his side
the last time you saw me
was through your closed eyes as i'm waiting by the phone

He loves you
who loves you more?
To let you go

He loves you
who loves you more?
To let you go

I can wait until my heart mends
so I can finally go outside
and I tell myself, well Ken
It's better to have lost love
than to paint a smile and pretend

The last time I saw you
you were standing by his side
the last time you saw me
seated close as I waited by the phone

He loves you
who loves you more?
To let you go

He loves you
who loves you more?
To let you go

The last time I saw you
you were standing by his side
the last time you saw me
was in a crumpled photograph that missed the bin

He loves you
who loves you more?
To let you go

He loves you
who loves you more?
To let you go


I love the_starting_line
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dying embers I cried like a child. Tears on your shoulders and you held me. Not like you used to but you held me, like you remembered. And for a little you loved me. I watched my tears dry on the leather I once loved and I wiped the last away. Goodbye love... I hope to see you another day. 040116
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shine the world was gray
i blended in

do you miss me?
do you know i'm gone?

i love you
you'll never know
040124
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shilohlives *You were standng just outside the door of Prici's house...and then you dissapeared into the darkness...*
*not that I haven't seen you in dreams...
040413
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unhinged shine wrote me; blather is good like that
.....

you wouldn't hold my hand
when i was the most scared
you wouldn't hold my hand
somehow
that doesn't surprise me
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pete you were laughing at me, sitting behind you drunk in class. it was the last class and it was a realyl really bad class, so i guess my state was understandable. you said that it was your plan to be drunk too, but being 18 the guy you hang out with decided not to buy you the booze. so you laughed at me, said 'see ya later' and walked away, with him and her out the door as i sat there with my two drunk friends as class ended in that ridiculous but wonderful orange jacket. all i thought was 'wow she actually talked to me without wanting something from me.. maybe it will last?'

i guess i was wrong.
040414
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thatgrrl you looked through me
as if you didn't see me at all
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skinny you were with someone who made you feal good about yourself... you're still the person that comes to mind when i think of people 040630
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skinny feel... im dumb 040630
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whoever i went stiff frozen
as you embraced me

too afraid to hug you back
too afraid to love you back
too afraid to be swept away in your eyes

and as you pulled away
clasping my hands
waiting for me
to look up
to catch up
to breathe

i could hear the tear
echoesplash
against the top of your shoe

still I could not move

the last time i saw you
eyes in a rearview morror
filled with pain

and your freakynightmare
dollshead swinging
on a string
laughing laughing
mocking
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baka i thought we had more time. 040630
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Splinty you were doing your hair, an you had your arms stretched over your head an one sock on... I felt like screamin, 'my god you're beautiful!' but risks are for the living... 040902
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O_A "...we had just slipt in two.
you were looking at me.
i was looking at you.

you had a way so familiar...
but I could not recognize.

you had blood on your face.
i had a blood in my eyes.

But i could swear by your expression that the pain in your soul...

was the same as the one down in mine..."
040902
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TK "We wrapped our arms around each other
Trying to shove ourselves back together
We were making love
Making love"

-Hedwig And The Angry Inch
--The Origin Of Love
040902
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. your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder 040902
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suicidalchinadoll I was smoking a cheap cigar
and you were trying not to look me in the eye..
040902
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sab was the day
that i figured out
my mannequin
looks just like you.

and that makes me wonder
if every time i made art
with her in it
was i actually making art
of you?

the glass belle

next time the phone rings
and there is jsut silence
i will wonder
if my mannequin has taken over
the jobs you no longer
forfill
040902
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metamantrg it was so hard to return home without you 040902
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tyler waters hm.. depends who 'you' is really.

ali:
You knocked on my door. I answered.
You came in.. . I showed you my depressing work environment (I WORK IN A SMALL ROOM UNDER THE STAIRS AT A COMPUTER). Then I gave you a phat wad of cash. You said you would email me every friday with progress reports on how my "investment isn't going sour". I got one email. 30 words. Depressing at that. Im still waiting for more, but I think you're done with me.. sucked me dry...

That was fun.. lets do another..

melina:
So we were on the bus
Talking about who knows what.. probably music or something. Then you got off downtown. I continued to go to work. You went to France.
BTW, Im SO going to France to see you.. Once I find at least one other person with enough money for a plane ticket.

melissa:
So I had this big party. I was so stressed about the multiple hundreds of people in my house that I really didn't stop to talk.
I stopped maybe for a few seconds "holy crap it's tyler" then I ran off outside to make sure everyone was being quiet. They weren't. I yelled at them. Stupid loud bitch on E. Fuck I should've killed her. Would've made my life a lot easier. Needless to say, that was the last party of mine.
You left across the juan de fuca strait. Ah well.. we never really talked much anyway..

Actually, that last one I could probably use for most people that barely know me and that I only ever see me when having a party. Jerks.

gee this is fun.

For all the males I ever see:
I was high...
041008
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nom now you're going to africa! with your baby, to take pictures for national geographic 051220
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unhinged harrisburg
long islands
taking pictures in the park
coldplay in new jersey
12th row
all alone



stay safe in afghanistan
051220
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neesh was detroit in '68, and you told me "all romantics meet the same fate" 051221
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delial you were already late for something else...i thought you'd be gone by the time i took my last look before walking out the door. why were you just standing there watching me walk away from you? 051222
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heart/felt was... ok.
I was going to say it was pathetic, but it was only me chasing after pathos (or bathos), and though exhausted I would have kept going. I so wanted you; But you let me see myself and I realized I couldn't pursue you any longer. It became apparent there was another path for me, and so we parted. There was no goodbye. Maybe that means our paths will cross again.
That's a variant I am partial to.
Am I one of your irreversible tangibles?
you are very powerful tonight.
the moon.
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In_Bloom I was crumbling apart yet clinging. In denial, in hope, in realization I had everything I wanted but it wasn't real, it wasn't really mine and possibly hadn't ever been intended to be. The innuendoes of your friends clawing to pieces the facade of you and me. 120109
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srealisma (new day) the last time i somewhat-saw you, i noted to remember that you had been reading The Liars Club.

I was like, man, he is so onto-it. by it, i thought i might have meant solving his own problems. If I were to talk to him now, he would be more onto whatever it is than I am and I would copycheck my so-called facts with him.

I was not in love with him. It was definitely a crush.
120110
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a clever disguise I brought my daughter and your daughter was the same age and our commitment levels were obviously different.

You used me like a babysitter, on top of all the other ways you always used me and I was so disgusted with you.

We left early in the morning and though I said I would come back, I knew I never would.

You apologized a million times after she guessed at how disgusted I was (women always seem to know how other women are feeling). I passed it off, said it was no big deal, but knew I could never have what we used to have.

You tried to surprise me at a show I was too sick to go to recently. You say I am on call.

But I can never be that Little_Girl again. I would love to go back, but there is no going back. Those days are gone.
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