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Door no.15 is a poem called misty eyes (resilient). I describe this one as the stereotypical cowboy poem. There are a lot of voices and thoughts when people find out I’ve been writing cowboy poetry. This one can definitely applied to those voices and thoughts, I intentionally leant into it.
PS: what are misty eyes anyway? and why do we keep falling for them?
why do i come crawling back
every single year sometime
around october or december
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