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I am a Backward Puzzle

from Snowstorm Sessions by Mick E. Ashlyn

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I collect myself.

I find the left-behinds or the want-to-be’s,

And I collect myself.

I take jigsaws and fill in the crowded closet,

I fit in the storage boxes in the second drawer of your bedroom.

You are a peice of me, quite literally.

I never check the rearview mirror,

Even when I back out of my drive way.

I wondered what day

You would say the words “I’ll miss you.”

I think I collect pieces of people.

I took your adventure,

Your laughter, and your will to create it,

I took your tough bitch attitude

(Maybe it needed taking away),

I took your shovel,

And you took mine.

I collect pieces of people,

I am a collection: an assembly of relative means.

I collect pieces of people to make less room for myself.

I am a collection, a backward puzzle.

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from Snowstorm Sessions, track released February 6, 2014

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Mick E. Ashlyn Boston, Massachusetts

I study English.
I love art.
I'm not a good singer.

Hopefully this bandcamp doesn't stay awful forever?

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