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HI, CREATIVES. I'm Payton. I'm a coffee-drinking, book-reading, manuscript-editing, story-telling kind of gal. I'm a freelance book editor. I'm also a writer, painter, mix-media artist, audiophile, fantasy enthusiast, and gamer. In my free time, you can find me gushing about books and poetry on my Instagram or writing parodies of my favorite songs. Contact Me: Email: hello@paytonhayes.com Website: www.paytonhayes.com Blog: https://www.paytonhayes.com/blog

  September 2019     24 days ago

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Sand

I don't like sand —its gritty, irritating, and it gets everywhere
I don't like the deep water of the ocean—its vast, uncharted, unknown, scary.
I don't like the sun for the way it beats down, baking sand and sea and those who've made the mistake...

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Burn

I'm the kind of girl who burns through guy friends like rubber on tiers, like sulfur on matches, like gasoline and kerosine and flameward moths.
But I don't want to burn through you.
We just go together so well—like puzzle pieces.
You and I are...

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Twin Shit

How is that you make me smile at my phone like a complete fool?

With miles and moons between us, we joked how we could be twins with our like taste in music and video games and movies and stories and everything else.

When you snapped me a...

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Mightnight Drive Down I-35

Midnight drive down I-35 It's more than just a title. It's more than a playlist.
It's more than a poem.
I took a drive up I-35 and met Kansas. We said "goodbye" just as quickly as we'd said "hello."
I took a drive down I-35 and met Texas. It was...

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Kills

It kills me writing this down.
I shake —my hand shakes as I write.
The parchment beneath me is riddled with streaks defining
emotion —ache, regret, grief, love, fear, desire.
I wish falling in love could wash away this pain but it never will.
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Thank you!! Check out the other poems on my profile! I'd say 2018-2022 are my best. I have about 300+ and some are still being approved by Poetry.com!

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