DEAR RYAN BAILEY COHEN

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dear ryan     i see your tooth and think of planting

 

    it dear ryan i miss you dear    ryan the most important

 

lesson about    sunscreen is that        things

 

    only burn as much    as you let them dear ryan

 

you called me your hero once i am    sorry

 

    if you ever felt         cold        dear ryan last night

 

i had a dream        all my    teeth     falling out dear

 

    ryan here’s a mountain poem        from when you

 

told me     that poets write about mountains

 

    i miss you        ryan    hope is the colour of

 

the sky    when    we watched the solar    eclipse        you

 

    were so brave dear    ryan it’s about a deer    ryan

 

the deer    ryan is so in love    with the mountain

 

    ryan    but the mountain is so old    ryan    

 

and they are both so     scared    ryan             ryan

 

    time passes differently from the perspective of 

 

something so ancient     ryan    so you see the     mountain

 

    it goes to sleep         and when it wakes up

 

ryan    the deer is    dead    it’s really quite sad    ryan

 

    it’s okay if you don’t understand it     ryan

 

i hope you never do    ryan     dear ryan        don’t look 

 

    at the sun             for too long now