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The Periodic Table Of People

An elemental phenomenon.

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Some people will unfold you like a letter and others will seal you in an envelope so tight you would think it was empty. Some people will special order you off a menu with 100 choices and others will spit you out and refuse to taste again. Some people will bathe in you and drink from your secondly spout and others will throw garbage in you and claim to be saving something else.

You will meet people on both sides of this and you think that you are learning about them. You are learning their likes and dislikes and what they eat on their pizza, but I'm telling you you're really learning yourself. You meet pieces of you over and over and all the traits and lessons you take away are really the physical, emotional, chemical elements of you. Your periodic table.

You will eat lunch with someone every day and realize you hate the sound of people chewing.

You will do the day with someone and proceed to do the night. Day after week after month you learn how much can be said in silence.

You will listen to music in the dark with someone and realize you both hear the words differently at night.

You will run around town with someone and realize you love not checking the time.

You will have your mind stolen from someone and realize no one has ever had your heart.

You will go swimming with someone and promise yourself to never touch cold water.

Someone will meet you and see your beauty and rhyme. You will meet them and hear their voice as the thin part of a marker. Years will go by and memories will be made, but after they're gone you'll realize you never liked that sound.


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