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If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it. We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You're not supposed to talk much anyway so it's safe there.There's also the gym. If you're shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in. And there's public transportation, because we a

Because I have a wandering heart that is always three steps in front of my head, urging it to follow. Because I close my eyes in the shower and hear a waterfall, an ocean, a last gasp for air. Because I have no secrets- just pain, categorized and filed away in alphabetical order. Because I know the proper way to nod at a police officer when bailing out a loved one, how to moan in a way that both my lovers and husbands can enjoy, and how to convince my friends that the gurgling in my stomach isn't my passion berating me for wearing a mask. Because I have a spine like a roadway, arms like clock towers, and fantasize about ci

This is for the fat girls. This is for the little brothers. This is for the school-yard wimps, this is for the childhood bullies who tormented them. This is for the former prom queen, this is for the milk-crate ball players. This is for the nighttime cereal eaters and for the retired, elderly Wal-Mart store front door greeters. Shake the dust. This is for the benches and the people sitting upon them, for the bus drivers driving a million broken hymns, for the men who have to hold down three jobs simply to hold up their children, for the nighttime schoolers and the midnight bike riders who are trying to fly. Shake the dust. This is fo