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fall asleep with me tonight.If I wrote you a lullaby with verses of moonlit, fogged breath and a chorus of heartbeats- would you fall asleep with our melody in your palms?

I lie awake at night and watch traffic lights outside my window shout RED into the peace quiet and occasional hazy rev of traffic. I lie awake and shiver through layers and wish to silent stars it wasn’t winter, wish the nighttime cool wouldn’t paint quite so many goose bumps on my skin and make my eyelids so cold. I lie awake at night and night-dream without sleep- about you and all your eyelashes and beautiful wordings.

I like the way your collarbone lies horizontally beneath your neck,

pretty boys break hearts.sometimes I think I’m just a mess of badly drawn lines. I’m just scrawled veins beneath paper rough skin, I wear poorly sketched scars on my thighs [skin deep red pen lines] and even my smile is lop-sided- but he never seemed to notice.

my skin [spread like thick icing over my skeleton] is a monotonous pattern of pores, a stretch of the world the sun never kissed. I can’t see the beauty in multitudes of freckles and chipped fingernails- but he does.

‘why do you love me?’

‘you make me happy.’

I never could figure out just how. was it my illegible love notes, or the tiny hearts I drew into his bare back wi

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Submitted: May 28, 2009
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Make:Canon
Model:Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Shutter Speed:2/1 second
Aperture:F/5.6
Focal Length:55 mm
ISO Speed:400
Date Taken:Mar 14, 2010, 9:07:29 PM

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teenage lifestyle, baby.

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~child998 Sep 23, 2012 Student Photographer

Nice work

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Mood: Love

~14SaiNoNaifu Aug 16, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

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*urban-lingo Jul 6, 2011 Hobbyist Writer

yup, relatable. this is so beautiful(:

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~hnji Jun 22, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

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=meganbreukelman Jun 7, 2011 Professional Photographer

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~brianjamesphoto Jul 21, 2010 Photographer

Teenage lifestyle, indeed. Love it!

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~QuinneStranger Apr 25, 2010 Student Photographer

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~ambalynn Jan 17, 2010 Writer

this is an amazing shot. i love so many of your pictures.

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!suntpedofila Dec 25, 2009 Interface Designer

Oleg had this picture on hi5.

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~nikolaasarkozy Nov 30, 2009

rly nice`

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