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E.R. Davis's avatar

This could have been a superbowl halftime performance.

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Black Coffee Poetry's avatar

You mean, you didn’t see us during the infomercial?

We were onstage right after Kendrick? 💄

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Writing Healing Becoming's avatar

Oh my god. I feel like I have to know how this was done.

Also Is it weird that I want a quiz to see whose words belong to whom?

Either way amazing collab of duality. Both voices, both words. ❤️🔥

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Jozef Cain's avatar

😁 ❤️ Thanks so much. We alternated stanzas so you could probably tell by context clues because Edward has a very unique eloquent yet visceral style 😜

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Aaron Waddell's avatar

Wow! That was tremendous. What an outstanding collaboration!

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Black Coffee Poetry's avatar

Thanking you, King Aaron ^_^.

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Jenine Baines's avatar

"The bittersweet liminality of the fire."

Cool stuff! Bravos!

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Edward Swafford's avatar

Thank you so much, Jenine!

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brutallybeautiful's avatar

it's so quiet beneath the blue

swelling epochs, swells of you and I

horizons are our coup de grâce from

a dissonant distance

I felt this stanza ebb and flow in me~ that sounds weirder than I intended. Fantastic work 🖤

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Black Coffee Poetry's avatar

This was one of my stanzas! We took turns writing one stanza each, back n’ forth! 🖤🌪

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Debdutta Pal's avatar

WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED.

This is not real.

And you people just had to do two readings. Have mercy.

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Black Coffee Poetry's avatar

The more I re-read it, the more I like it? It just works.

And there’s Joseph in the title image, all graceful in his black trail.

Then there’s me, ass out and mortal from a bender down chavvy Mamchester way.

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A. Njoto's avatar

It's like the Taylor Swift and Florence Welch collab I never knew I needed.

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Black Coffee Poetry's avatar

I’m definitely Florence cos’ Taylor is a paid shill for Kamala. 🌪🌪🖤

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Jozef Cain's avatar

I'll be Taylor Swift ;)

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A. Njoto's avatar

We all smell like weed and little babies lol 🤪

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Jozef Cain's avatar

I don't really know much about Taylor Swift, so I was like that is a very odd thing to say. And I thought I had fumbled my microdose. Then I pasted it into Google and everything was ok. lol.

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Black Coffee Poetry's avatar

I have a friend who calls her “Tay-Tay” so she’s sullied just from this.

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A. Njoto's avatar

It was her lyrics lol.. I didn't listen to her much either. it was for florence that I gave that song a listen =)

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Elena's avatar

Umm. This might be one of my favourites ever. You harmonize so well??!!!

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Black Coffee Poetry's avatar

We’re divine angels.

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Elena's avatar

Word.

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