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how to talk to girls at parties.

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two carnations hang on the wall, and you could be the reason
her leaves shiver as she slips off her skirt or her petals part
when she tells you that her father left when she was thirteen

but your roots are stuck in plaster, held fast by sticky doubt
that her pink is too perfect for your ruddy complexion, that
you’ve been picked at too many times by impatient fingers—

swallow your pride deep into your stem and tell her the way
she leans reminds you of a family picnic you went to where
all you did was sit against a tree with your sister and laugh
Inspired by a Tumblr user with the same URL: howtotalktogirlsatparties.tumb…
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RestlessSands's avatar
what a lovely play of words :)

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