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the higher the heels the closer to god

from if it moves kiss it by young adult fiction

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everyone i've ever met was in my dream last night. M was riding around in the bottom of the shopping cart, telling me they remember me laughing at the bottom of the stairs. parker was making a collage of his parking tickets. haydar hadn't blinked for days. jack turns to hannah and says "what do we do now?" hannah tilts her head and thinks for a bit, then sparks up "let's buy a van and die in it!" akif is frozen from the neck down, but a smile splits his face. sabine's cutting hair out on the porch. noelle is darting in and out, grabbing handfuls of fallen hair and adding them to her collection. daniel's smoking his skinny cigarettes, shaking. alexa, baking bread. the man who is trying to quit smoking by eating a carrot every time he has a craving for a cigarette is turning orange.... everyone, living or dead, was there last night.

riley collected champagne flutes and parking tickets
sherry grew strange plants in her chest of drawers
parker insisted on drawing his visions
on ceiling, walls, window and floor,
jules spent his money on fruit and newspapers
while i spent my days in the pond
the tadpoles hatched and they squirmed around my body
i held my heart in my mouth and sang along


a house full of neighbors, soon to be strangers
out front shoes hang from the phone lines
uninvited change watched us from a distance
and laughed at our grand designs
so if we meet again can we please pretend
all that we said still holds true
every shared pain and each wasted night
you have to believe that the cat is alive


masha collected temporary tattoos
as snaggle-tooth sam sorted spoons
kindness and neglect always shared the same breath
the one thing we agreed on was food
if you spoke softly you might hear a whispered
sob or sigh or scream through the vents
hindsight shines bright on each word i regret
still i'd give my whole life to do it over again

~for the country's gigantic size, relatively few people live here...~

i'm keeping a secret, please don't tell nobody
i swallowed tadpoles from the pond
they swim and they squirm and they howl in my belly
the higher the heels the closer to god

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from if it moves kiss it, released April 29, 2022

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