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Published: 2019-04-06 21:01:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 228; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 0
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i've known her for months now / the lady who pours my coffee / but she still thinks / my name is alison / and i've learned to accept / maybe that's close enough /i'm too shy to correct her / anyway / confrontation was never my strong suit / like / maybe that's why i find myself in gutters / so often / like maybe /
i should stop being / so complacent / maybe life's a ride / but maybe i should drive / for once / anyway / the lady who pours my coffee / says i look
a lot like / her lost cousin brittney / she tells me all about her / how she left for new york years a / go and i think / she misses her a lot / from the
i hope she's doing alright / and the / i think about sending her some postcards / but i don't have her address / anyway / and i wonder / if i'll ever meet
this brittney / this person / who looks so much like me / but is capable / of up and leaving to chase something more / i bet she's not complacent /
i wonder what we would talk about / maybe we could talk about / her coffee lady cousin / who wants to be part of her life / but isn't / and i find myself wondering /
what i wouldn't give for that
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I get an eerie vibe on this as well. But in a good way, I love it so much
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ahhh what's eerie about it?!
thank you
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I don't know, to be honest 
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as someone who identifies most closely with the cousin of the lady who pours coffee in this poem, this is an eerie one to read...not sure how to explain it
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is eerie good?
i relate to the cousin and the coffee lady and the narrator. so it was interesting to write.
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All three? I'm curious which pieces of you are in each! Yeah, eerie is not bad, just hard to express, I waver on feeling like I sold my soul to break out of my home town, even if I know I had to break out. It's creepy thinking of ppl back home imagining my life. Because I know they project their buried dreams on ppl like me, even if my life is no dream, just different.
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occasionally complacent and too shy to continually correct names
not afraid to chase major dreams / go through hell for them
& the desire to be in an ex-friend's life, who probably long quit thinking of me
i know the feeling. i'm glad you got away and did what was best for you.
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Part of me wants to get her name wrong on purpose just to see if I can get her to say, "It's Brittney bitch". lol
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