Runaways-

Summer sugar bathes the streets
And hangs from trees
Booze and lights hide love from
Crowns and touchdowns
Road trip retinas see blonde backseats
Asphyxiation dies in Cadillacs.

Courtney Roach
February 4, 2007

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Megaphone-

Fingertips stretched sleeves lost
Girls trust life support
Thieves lie down inside your hair
To show yourself and love me most
Blinding fear into your right wrist
Telling me to hold this
I can't keep you like this.

Courtney Roach
February 17, 2007

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so-so-

Touchdown, threw down
All your feelings drowned
Around my feet
Journeys to a beat down
Struck down
Not on my watch.

Courtney Roach
February 17, 2007

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Velvet-

Waxing and waning like
Teenage vocabulary, trapped
Inside duct tape wallets and
Crude secrets from pin-ups
Pushing pills and innocence
Smoking grey eyelashes
Automatic patriotic plagues
Wars to wear their hearts on sleeves.

Courtney Roach
February 18-19, 2007

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Opposite Sex-

A spot on my heart
As we sit there and stare
With a lock on the door
And a joke in repair
No one's looking when you're crawling
Through me
Still my insides stay inside me.

Courtney Roach
February 18-19, 2007

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Mrs.-

Paper dolls and cutouts of love
Strung from baby books and
The dirty looks she tossed in eyelashes
Lipstick cases bringing kisses
Back from the dead and into the graves again.

Courtney Roach
February 26, 2007