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I took a drag and a drag, and sucked in until I choked all the fire into my chest,
blew it up white into my head and let it settle between -
your lungs caught on my ribs
and I wanted so badly just to snap your brittle, bony body -
"no, thanks" you say, when I offer to buy you coffee,
"don't waste your money." -
stupid. rant.
don't bother reading. -
I feel like I'm the crusted sleep around your eyes that you can wipe away every morning.
And you're looking to your friends for nods of ag -
just a way to put it down, without restating the details of the horrible, terrible deed.
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I stay poised at your shoulder with a pen
waiting for you to reach out -
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I know that nothing lasts on its own, because it requires an active force to combat despair and natural law. -
we used to lie on floors
close the doors and wrap each other up -
this is where I like you.
sitting on the top stair on the third floor before your bedroom -
we are eighteen and naked
you're tapping the wall, -
well at least now there's a reason.
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more of a diary entry
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"it was only a matter of time before you did too"
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you were always there.
I used you as my aloe because you let me- so cool and kind, -
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I wish there were separate verbs for the same word
plain and straight ones -
not a poem, just talking
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there was a boy and girl. they were human, which means they had human shaped bodies.
but they were animals. -
I want to call you baby.
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who plotted the dripping? the splitting?
was it one of us, or someone on the outside -
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I'm floating past teaberry ice cream soaking into hairy tongues;
I remember how it tasted when I was looking ahead and could still hear yo -
simple thoughts, that's all.
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