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The sidewalk's paved with petals like a wedding aisle
I wonder how long it would take to walk eight hundred miles
To say I do, I did, I will, I would
I'm not sorry, not certain, not perfect, not good
But I love you, and every day
That I knew and didn't say
Is lost time
Song (Lost Time - Lucy Dacus)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Poem (The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost)
True love will find you in the end
You'll find out just who was your friend
Don't be sad, I know you will
But don't give up until
Song (True Love Will Find You in the End - Daniel Johnston)
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—
I know what the caged bird feels!
Poem (Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Poem (Song of Myself - Walt Whitman)
Did I dream the whole thing?
Was I just a nightmare?
Different dimensions
Stuck in the twilight zone
Is this a black and white scene?
If so, then I'm in the gray one
Song (Twilight Zone - Ariana Grande)
Raccoon you better be cool
Thought I saw you on Broadway
Eating King Fish’s barbecue
Some people claim raccoon you pretty
Swear raccoon tame like a kitty
But raccoon bites you if you get too close
I saw raccoon on Lenox Avenue
Stealing milk from a baby
Thought I saw a black cat on the corner
But it was nothing but old raccoon
Raccoon let me school you
Raccoon you know you too country
You better leave the city
Poem (Talking Blues - Calvin Forbes)
The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy
'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore
And then they are bored of me
I know that it's exciting running through the night, but
Every perfect summer's eating me alive until you're gone
Better on my own
Song (Liability - Lorde)
Knowing deep inside only a few love me
Don't rush me through the gates of heaven
Let me picture for a while
How I lived from my days as a child
Song (Hold Ya Head - Tupac Shakur)
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
Poem (“Hope” is the thing with feathers - Emily Dickinson)
The eldest daughter of a nobleman
Ophelia lived in fantasy
But love was a cold bed full of scorpions
The venom stole her sanity
And if you'd never come for me
I might've lingered in purgatory
You wrap around me like a chain, a crown, a vine
Pulling me into the fire
Song (The Fate of Ophelia - Taylor Swift)
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Poem (In a Station of the Metro - Ezra Pound)
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
Poem (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T. S. Eliot)
And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow
Song (Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan)
If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do
It's not the same thing
but it's the best i can do
Poem (Choices - Nikki Giovanni)
In the age of him, she wished she was thirty
And made coffee every morning in a French press
Afterwards she only ate kids' cereal
And couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed
Then she dated boys who were her own age
With dart boards on the backs of their doors
She thought about how he said since she was so wise beyond her years
Everything had been above board
She wasn't sure
Song (The Manuscript - Taylor Swift)
There are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends, I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all
Song (In My life - The Beatles)
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Poem (One Art - Elizabeth Bishop)
Her fight and fury is fiery
Oh but she loves
Like sleep to the freezing
Sweet and right and merciful
I'm all but washed
In the tide of her breathing
Song (Cherry Wine - Hozier)
Each flower a wilting sun
The death of a new day is never kind
Grief ain’t no song
No loss is this romantic
Poem (Marigold - Mahogany L. Browne)