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And what did it mean to be kids together? Together in those years of uncertainty, searching for those who made us feel less alone. Venerations and Goodbyes is my love letter to that liminal time in adolescence where you do not belong anywhere except the space and time you are inhabiting. The time while you wait for your life to start, often, not realizing that it already has.
These poems pause on the small moments. They celebrate the places you were able to first be free and commemorate the friends who were there alongside you. They explore what it meant to be kids together, at a certain time, in a certain place. They lament how much we carry with us and how much we eventually leave behind. We grow and change from those awkward kids. Though we don’t realize it, as days come after days and the same songs play on our playlists. We hold on to just enough, so we don’t feel it slipping away. These poems honor and mourn those moments that add up to a life. 
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This one is for those songs you listen to with your eyes closed This one is for Giant’s Despair This one is for the losers This one is for us This one is for being straight edge This one is for highways This one is for Point Park This one is for that summer This one is for who we were so sure we would become This one is for the AIM away message This one is for The World Inferno/Friendship Society Life is just a series of good byes This is for the cynics This is for all the scene kings and queens This is for everything having a soundtrack This is for those songs you hate This is for those burrito (k)nights This is for the labels This is for our glory days This is for the boys of my youth This is for those songs This is for the weird girl This is for the empty streets This is for day drinking This is for Denny's in Los Angeles Life is just a series of good byes (reprise) This one is for that first car This one is for being one of the lucky ones This one is for those last nights This one is for those small town kids we were once |
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