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Girls Like Me.

Do not fall in love with girls like me. 

I won't be a good mother.

Or someone who knows how to be a pair. 

Do not expect for me to create, to make, to inspire growth. 

Do not look to me expecting grace or elegance or order. 

I am chaos and stumbling; I am mayhem.

Do not fall in love with girls like me. 

I will cry a lot and hog the covers,

either that or I will kick them fiercely into a knot.

I will start projects and leave them unfinished until morning.

I leave books unfinished, both written and read.

I hate bacon,

and love coffee too much for my own good. 

Sometimes I eat nothing, other days I eat everything. 

There are days when I struggle with my own thoughts. 

Others when the voices I hear are filling me with pride. 

I am an immediate mix of hot and cold, but not in the perfect sense. 

I don't like cake, hardly ever like ice cream, and would rather have french toast than pancakes. 

I like flowers that are harder for a romantic than roses, flowers like French Marigolds that you'll never find in bouquet form at Kitty's Flowers. 

My hands are always cold and clammy, my body is always sweaty.

I'm nervous about everything, preoccupied by a never-ending list of what-if's.

Do not fall in love with girls like me. 

Girls who think a lot.

but think slower than the lot of them. 

Girls who can hear at the level of someone up in age and who don't really have much style. 

I fear water and embrace venturing to the beach in the winter. 

I can sleep for hours or ignore sleep for days.

There will be months when I hardly sleep at all and months when I'm tired after exerting any littlest form of force to live. 

I will be so loud and obnoxious some days, want to dance some days, whereas all others are left quiet and kept to myself. 

I have freak outs and sessions of tears, somedays I will want you to hold me and others I'll want to hit you. 

Don't fall in love with girls like me. 

I'll drop the baby, 

I'll never know when to stop giving to them. 

I'll spoil them rotten. 

Don't fall in love with girls like me. 

We're hot and we're cold, but we're no in between.