Second Clue

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Across
  1. 3. So I can imagine our love is a forest because I wanna get lost in you and I swear I grew like a
  2. 5. Well I guess that's not true but I do want to spend my life with you and I want to know that
  3. 9. With the way you held me in the morning resting your head on my chest and I swear my breath turned
  4. 11. For fifty years we feathered wings too wide to be prey and we flew through days strong and through days fragile as sand castles at high tide and you would fold your love into an origami
  5. 12. Want to be in that room with you when visiting hours are for family members only I want to know they'll let me in I want to know they'll let me hold you while I sing ba be de bop de ba ba
  6. 14. The first time I watched you dance to the tune of our kitchen kettle in our living room. In a world that could have left us hard as metal we were soft as nostalgia
  7. 15. That was my favorite line that and the time we saw two boys kissing on the streets of Kansas and we both broke down crying because it was Kansas and what are the chances of seeing anything but corn in Kansas we were
  8. 16. And you'd throw it through my passageways until all my hidden chambers were filled with lanterns now every trap door every pore of my heart is open because of you because of us so I do I do
  9. 17. That checkout clerk and you said baby that's not funny and I said baby maybe you could take a fucking joke now and then and I slept on the
  10. 18. That night but when morning came you were
  11. 23. The day your hair did like I swore marigolds grew in the folds of my eyelids the first time I saw you and they
  12. 24. So we had lots of cats and dogs and once even a couple of monkeys you taught to sing hey hey we're the monkeys you were
  13. 25. I'm so in love with you. I'm so in
Down
  1. 1. Again that day I cut your cord and you cut mine and the chords of time played like a concerto of
  2. 2. On his knees I want to walk down the aisle while all the patriarchy
  3. 4. you every night knowing I might never understand every word but that's okay cause the lines of you were the closest thing to
  4. 6. And we were from the beginning living in towns that frowned at our hand holding folding up their stares like hate notes into our pockets so we could pretend they weren't there you said fear is only a verb if you let it be don't you dare let go of my
  5. 7. Years from now when you're in a hospital room and getting ready to die when visiting hours are for family members only I want to know they'll let me in to say
  6. 8. Yeah there were times we were both half in and half out the door but I never needed more than the stars of your grin to lead me
  7. 9. So we could feel the rope unwind feel the noose of hate loosening loosening from the years of people like you aren't welcome here people like you can't work here people like you cannot
  8. 10. Cause I've been fifty years memorizing how the lines beneath your eyes form rivers when you cry and I've held my hand like an ocean at your cheek saying
  9. 13. For fifty years you were my favorite poem and I'd
  10. 16. Every hour of the fifty years I was with you and that's not to say we didn't have bad days like the day you said that checkout girl was so sweet and I said I'd like to
  11. 19. I'd ever heard you'd say this kind of love has to be a verb we are
  12. 20. On a slick canvas it's gonna take a whole lot to stick but if we do we'll be a
  13. 21. With you ba be de bop de ba bop be be da bop ba goodbye.
  14. 22. Like that and I was crazy about you on nights you couldn't sleep I'd lay awake for hours counting sheep for you and you would rewrite the rhythm of my