solve for ex

because the urge to get inside his head
and make everything seem perfect is so strong
the lad feels pressure to keep us from sad

the suffix -ness, he does not know it yet-
it's just our struggle
isn't rotten fruit all the time

and time solves everything.
solves it all. here where there
is salt vapor and saline

ocean, solvents too;
so solve it all, every mystery
hopelessly dissolved.

i will at least
dissipate while
still honest

is a life
preserver
of mine

we
are
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