Urban Love Poem
Maybe its an traditional poem is Chinese or Japanese culture
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- May 2021
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ike a thin-hipped dowager
What does dowager mean? An old, widowed woman of high social rank who has inherited her husband’s property
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You arrange the amenities
Saying that
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squats in the sinking earth
The building is sinking into the ground
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refuses to bend in the wind
Implying that the bamboo is strong
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Condominium, stiff bamboo,
Describing the scene of where she stayed at
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Love poem that seems to have a long history
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Take me home
She doesn't want to be with at the moment
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I said "I've been there too a few times"
She is saying herself that has happen to herself before
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Can't stop thinking about you" and I
But he can't help but keep coming back to Taylor Swift
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He says "What you've heard is true but I
Admitting that what she is saying is true
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I say "I've heard that you've been out and about with some other girl, some other girl"
She is getting heated up because she is repeating stuff
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Takes me home, lights are off he's taking off his coat
Maybe the guy wants to give her his coat because it is cold outside
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So it goes, he can't keep his wild eyes on the road
He keeps looking at Taylor Swift and not paying attention to the road
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And I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt
Describing how someone would look like back in the day
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You've got that long hair slick back, white t-shirt
Describing the good looking man characteristics
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Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style
Saying that their love for each other will never go away
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And when we go crashing down, we come back every time
Even though the relationship is going to be bad she is still going to keep coming back
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And I got that red lip, classic thing that you like
She is doing something in order to impress the guy
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You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye
The man has dreamy eyes and it reminds her of James Dean
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Watch it go round and round each time
She is saying it's an endless loop
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Know exactly where it leads but I
Maybe she has something like this already happened to her and she doesn't want to go there again
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And I should just tell you to leave 'cause I
She should tell him to leave
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It's been a while since I have even heard from you
They haven't talked in a long time
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Fade into view, oh,
Disappearing into the view where they are alone
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Long drive, could end in burning flames or paradise
They could find some place nice to go or have the drive be long enough to where some bad might happen like a argument or car problem
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Midnight, you come and pick me up, no headlights
Coming tp pick her up but turns off the headlights so no one knows sees him coming
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It'll leave you breathless, mmh
She will do things that will having him really thinking about if he should've got in a relationship with her
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Don't say I didn't say, I didn't warn ya
She is trying to warn them before all the stuff she going to do
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Boys only want love if it's torture
boys only like the relationship if its toxic
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Got a long list of ex-lovers
She has had many relationships that didn't work out in the past.
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I could show you incredible things
She can make him feel a way no one ever made him feel before
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'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream
She can do the right actions for the wrong intentions
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But you'll come back each time you leave
She has something about her that men can't leave behind so easily
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I get drunk on jealousy
She has so much jealousy in her that it ruins her
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"Oh, my God, who is she?"
The man has saw a another pretty girl
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Keep you second guessing like
She is going keep messing with his mind and making think about if he wants to go with her or not
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Rose garden filled with thorns
Might be pretty sight but filled with hate
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I can make all the tables turn
Saying if he ever does something her she will hurt she get revenge an
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Screaming, crying, perfect storms
They will go through the stages of screaming at each other and crying
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Wait, the worst is yet to come, oh, no
The worst part of relationship is going to come sooner or later
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Be that girl for a month
She will act like everything he wanted in a woman for a month
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Find out what you want
She will find out what he likes in a woman
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You're the King, baby, I'm your Queen
Saying that they are meant to be together
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Stolen kisses, pretty lies
Maybe she has cheated on some guys and lied about it
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Cherry lips, crystal skies
She got all pretty for him and is ready to take him on an adventure
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And I'll write your name
She will write the man name in her next blank space and will write down the man's name
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But I've got a blank space, baby
Saying she a another space to write down the man's name if the relationship doesn't work out
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They'll tell you I'm insane
She has been known for being crazy
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Or with a nasty scar
The relationship will take a toll on the man
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It'll leave you breathless
The relationship could be one the best things to ever happen to him
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We'll take this way too far
She is saying that the relationship will last longer than it is supposed to
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'Cause we're young and we're reckless
They are both young and still don't everything that goes into a relationship
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And you love the game
Saying that all the player stuff, the man loves to do
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Cause you know I love the players
Possibly saying that she like the men that play girls and are cheat
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They'll tell you I'm insane
Maybe she has relationship problems
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Got a long list of ex-lovers
Has a long list ex-lovers signaling that maybe she is the problem or doesn't choose the right guys
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If the high was worth the pain
Asking if the all the good times are worth the pain
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You can tell me when it's over, mmh
She is letting the man decide what he wants to do
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Or it's gonna go down in flames
Everything could go wrong and have a bad ending
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So it's gonna be forever
They can have this for life
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I can make the bad guys good for a weekend
She can turn a man's life around for a weekend.
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Grab your passport and my hand
She is implying she is going to take him a trip figuratively
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I'm dying to see how this one ends
She is so eager to see how the relationship is going.
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So hey, let's be friends
She wants to start the relationship
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And I know you heard about me
She has some stuff about her too that floating around too, probably some bad things
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Ain't it funny rumors fly
She probably heard some bad things about the man
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I can read you like a magazine
She's been in so many relationships she practically knows all the signs
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New money, suit and tie
Describing what the man has on, some women like a wealthy man
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Love's a game, wanna play?" Ay
Implying that she wants to be in a relationship with the boy
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You look like my next mistake
Saying the person is already a mistake in the making
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"Oh, my God, look at that face
Probably thinks a boy is attractive
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Magic, madness, heaven, sin
Describing the things she can show to a person
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Saw you there and I thought
Someone caught her eye and start thinking
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I could show you incredible things
She can show someone a great time
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Nice to meet you, where you been?
Having a conversation with herself in her head
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Blank Space
Place where she can let her mind go blank and relax
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and swiveling back to see an orange blur floating perfectly through the net.
Looks back and sees that the ball went through the hoop nice and easy
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with a wild, headlong motion for the game he loved like a country
body was moving wildly and telling us how the player loves the sport
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but losing his balance in the process, inexplicably falling, hitting the floor
what does inexplicably mean incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for
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by himself now and laying it gently against the glass for a lay-up,
Power Forward lay-ups nice and easy
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while the power-forward explodes past them in a fury, taking the ball into the air
The power forward passes them and tries to get a easy layup or dunk
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until the guard finally lunges out and commits to the wrong man
Making the guard choose a man to defend but ends up being the wrong one
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between them without a dribble, without a single bounce hitting the hardwood
pass to each other without letting the ball hit the floor
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and filling the lanes in tandem, moving together as brothers passing the ball
what does tandem mean? In partnership or conjunction
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both forwards racing down the court the way that forwards should, fanning out
both forwards are moving fast
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in slow motion, almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on the blackboard,
Play worked out like the play planned it to
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of a high, gliding dribble and a man letting the play develop in front of him
Moving so fast looks like they're gliding down the court
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who looks stunned and nailed to the floor in the wrong direction, trying to catch sight
It was such a good pass it stunned the defender.
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an underhand pass toward the other guard scissoring past a flat-footed defender
The guard is already throwing a nice pass to the other guard
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and spinning around to throw a strike
Center threw it so fast, it resembled a pitcher's strikeout.
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perfectly, gathering the orange leather from the air like a cherished possession
describing the color of the ball, and the player grab the ball like it was the most important thing in the world.
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boxes out his man and times his jump
Got in front of his man and jumped up
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and for once our gangly starting center
What does gangly mean? Tall and thin
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hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop,
The ball can't do anything and the doesn't drop is another term for missing
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A hook shot kisses the rim and
A hook shot is shot were the shooter throws the ball over his shoulders
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and spinning around to throw a strike to the outlet who is already shoveling
Saying the center is throwing the ball down court really fast like a pitcher in baseball would throw a strike.
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Fast Break
Giving me the idea that someone is going fast through their life.
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