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You pry apart the lips

of a fifty cent lawn chair

garage sale bargain

lock jawed with sea air


There's nothing in this town

but a lost child's theater

you passed my house a thousand times

but you didn't know I lived there


why does it take

fifty foot flames

to walk across the streets

to learn our neighbors names?


The shingles slide like playing cards

the windows melt like taffy

the door frames snap like toothpicks

smoke bitter brown as coffee


Your flushed with blush

Igneous

Firey fingers flick at us


We take a turn to watch it burn

a heated urn

To love, love, love

We love to learn

We learn to burn

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from picking through the pawn shop, track released January 7, 2011

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Ten Cent Poetry Asheville, North Carolina

Chelsea La Bate is a poet, composer, songwriter, performer, author and radio host. She likes sparkly things. She constructs songs with colored markers, a notebook, a mountain dulcimer, a banjo and a guitar.

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