rjhaley

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rjhaley
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twenty years old. she/her

  February 2024     1 month ago

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the bar in manhattan

am now twenty one years old.

i can drink at the bar in manhattan.
i take a sip of the red wine,
the sounds of overlapping conversations and the smell of spilt beers.

but i cannot be six again.

wading through the creek with my cousin,...

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raw. honest. confessional poetry will always express a real, human experience even if the words arent overly flowery. it makes you feel something. and you did that here.

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