Paul Compton

The skeleton in your closet has a bone to pick with you.

Collect your tears in a glass and pour them back into the ocean

Give your scarf a name.

Your teddy bear misses you.

Stargaze ceilings

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Put stars into your lover’s heart

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Have no secrets.

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Rename your goldfish every three seconds.

What you write in the sand never really disappears.

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Shield your umbrella from the rain.

Dead dogs can’t play ball
And dead dogs can’t go for "walkies" anymore,
You can’t teach a dead dog new tricks either
Of that you can be sure.

Dead dogs can’t fetch the newspaper
They can…

One night the boy became a fox.

He sighed off his skin in the moonlight
Let all time fall away from him
Shook off a moniker.
In its place a miraculous pelt
- And the sharpest teeth yet…