chloe young Biography

i tried to stop your calcium intake so that you would never grow
i wanted you to shrink so that i could keep you in my pocket
and you could gnaw through the fabric and plunge onto my toes.
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i wish i could swim the pacific ocean and back.

and when i came back to sit in front of a burning burning fire
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inhaling the ocean breeze and feeling it empty my lungs makes me feel completely intact

i can taste the salt in its entirety on my tongue and i try to scrape it all off with my front teeth
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i wake up and i think of you
and i look out of my window
it is grey and the lights stopped
glittering a long time ago
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i can see the muscles strain on your
back when you lay alongside me, they
look like rib cages and i lay there too
and envisage that when you sleep i could
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