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You made me buy a book, so reading I’d remember the summer afternoons that we had spent together. I thought that it was strange, cause how could I forget it. I only say your name since the first night that we met.

Listening to you between the shelves, I thought intently to myself. What if I kissed you on the mouth? Would you lose interest in me?

My timing’s always wrong. I always wait too long, or I don’t act at all. Regret that I was born.

But you’ve got a look that I could live for, and you’re pretty mind. Wish I could keep on hanging out with you at local bookstores. Laying with you at the beach.

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from The Joys of Living in the Modern World, released October 24, 2014

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