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Crumpled Paper

Poetry

Cliche title? Maybe. It's just unorganized poems. Doesn't need anything fancier. Mostly very straightforward writes about mundane things. No mushy love poems, no dark broody poems. I write somewhere else so this is mostly gonna be an ease-of-refer...

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An introduction

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by ValleyFold

by ValleyFold

and this is what you'll find here:

"Hello! this is me."

said a hundred different ways

(here's the first)

lint-lined pockets

and cobwebbing contemplations.

You might find

goldfish,

squirrels,

a fragment of your own reflection

or a fragment of mine

something true

something duplicitous

handfuls of dreams

and lost things

something written

knowing it would annoy someone

(even if that someone is me)

the cow-spotting car rides

of my childhood

stretching their legs

for a brief visit

rummaging through my mail

tossing invitations to move on

behind the couch

crumpled

paper

or maybe just the folds.

(I'm happier with this; it's still subject to change)