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Jamaican Time
There are 1,013,913 words in the English language 
 Yet I couldn't string any of them together 
 To properly describe this beauty 
 Sensory intake has interrupted my soliloquies
 Red dirt on skin turned to tea leaves on rust
 Time took a break to look around
 
 Veins run like rivers 
 Dumping into the ocean 
 Poetry flows from waving fingertips 
 Voices are ballroom dancing with each other 
 And we all realize 
 Time is a nasty little habit 
 
 Everything has become animalistic 
 Like there's a primal urge to be happy 
 Forget the iPhones 
 Nothing compares to the imprints on my palms 
 From pressing my hands on the collar bones of
 Time

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