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About Hillary Oberpeul.
Spare Me
Hillary Oberpeul is a senior creative writing major with a minor in management and organizations. She is on the Miami University Equestrian Team, works at the Miami University Bookstore, and likes to write really weird poetry. "Spare Me" is about relationships and the miscommunications that happen in them. Some of it doesn't make sense, some of it is really dumb, and some of it seems to be kind of insightful. Welcome to the world of relationships.
Leave your light on for me,
a cinnamon car freshener you lit on fire.
Did you mean to do that?
There are diet coke cans rolling on the floor.
A cinnamon car freshener you lit on fire?
I don’t understand.
There are diet coke cans rolling on the floor.
Maybe you should pick them up.
I don’t understand.
Do you see the stars I stare at?
Maybe you should pick them up.
Shit’s about to get real.
Do you see the stars I stare at?
That one is pretty hot.
Shit’s about to get real.
Don’t worry, I’m on birth control.
That one is pretty hot.
The cinnamon car freshener is on fire.
Don’t worry, I’m on birth control.
What did you dream about?
The cinnamon car freshener is on fire.
I honestly don’t like red.
What did you dream about?
Leave your light on for me.