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I am a building

room after room

very much so different

stacked above

supporting below

halls and stairwells

that sound?

tap dancing from apartment 7

#2 leaves her door open every time she goes for the mail

sometimes I sneak a peek

houseplants, a chair losing it's stuffing, one rainboot

smelled like patchouli

I wish apartment 5 would stop setting the fire alarm off

We all suffer then

#8 lights up the night, all night, lights on

I never see the tenant from # 11

There isn't a smell yet

The cat always needs returning to apartment 3

an old dear, so forgetful

full of cough drops and bible verses

The longest showers that drain the hot water tank: #10

I sit on the roof

keepin the lid on

keep on keepin on

lid on

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how long...

how wide...

how deep...

how high...

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"I know why God left this aching void - for himself to fill."

- Frank Laubach, Practicing His Presence

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and I will rejoice

and be glad!

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"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."

- George Eliot

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"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us when adversity takes the place of prosperity when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

--Washington Irving

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