Conversations with Chat-leen

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it's time to reflect / it's friday in the after AM / it's saturday at 1:39 AM / it's movie night

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it's time to feel the rip / it's time to ride the sip / it's time to float, drift, along

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clothed, sleeved, cotton beneath i start / then slowly, strip, i do and depart / to reveal to discover to reply / i've been so absent with myself, i sigh

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when is the last time you wrote a poem? / to her, to i, to him, who knows them? / how smooth and sturdy and song is that pen / which every day preserves our lives