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her dark arts
and pale arms
were spread
large
accepting my
lunar tics these
half-witted quips and
verbal cheap tricks my
instinct
dictates
(displaying defense
as gifts)
seems she sees
this mess as
the me
that I
want to be
not the oft
bridge burnt
wreck that
presents itself
constantly
with self-
fulfilled
prophecy
un- or sub-
consciously
collecting
the ghosts
and dashed hopes
that haunt
as he
shakes
in shades
of dusk and
decries
the night
he smothers
sparks & signs
of possible light
of passable life
of that one last
last chance
at getting it
right
and pale arms
were spread
large
accepting my
lunar tics these
half-witted quips and
verbal cheap tricks my
instinct
dictates
(displaying defense
as gifts)
seems she sees
this mess as
the me
that I
want to be
not the oft
bridge burnt
wreck that
presents itself
constantly
with self-
fulfilled
prophecy
un- or sub-
consciously
collecting
the ghosts
and dashed hopes
that haunt
as he
shakes
in shades
of dusk and
decries
the night
he smothers
sparks & signs
of possible light
of passable life
of that one last
last chance
at getting it
right
Literature
shuteye
got my mama
a golden needle,
but
she hid it
in the hay -
told me
the sweet things in life
are worth looking for
over
and over
again
'til your eyes just
can't see
anymore.
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on not giving a fuck
there is this certain layer
of you that I am reaching.
I want to peel back all of
the others like sunburn and
fill myself with it, this
truth in why you
drink iced coffee and try
not to care.
I want to know you better
than you ever knew me, but the
words in your eyelids are
sharp and bare and I am
not supposed to know much.
stop filling the space in between
my breasts with your words.
stop
dreaming, you are flat.
stop seeing me for what I am,
a bruise, a sore, a flat
of someone's palm
to my mouth, I do not
want to be peeled like
this.
Literature
please let me get what i want.
For two hundred and eighty four days, I woke up. I woke up with this bone-deep ache that never went away. I woke up to an incessant question playing in my mind that would never be answered. I woke up alone.
For two hundred and eighty four days, I woke up without you when I woke up at all. The thing about time is that it never does make anything better. It just means more space to think. It means sleepless nights trying to figure it all out. When it went wrong. How to make it better. It means slowly losing my mind. But it never once meant getting over you.
It's funny how the things you think you've forgotten always come rushing back when you
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"and you give what you have
and it's all that you've got,
and you hope it's enough,
but you know that's it not."
and it's all that you've got,
and you hope it's enough,
but you know that's it not."
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i like it both when you speak us plain and when you don't
sometimes i think it's plain but maybe it isn't sometimes it's not at all plain but maybe it's supposed to be
sometimes i think it's plain but maybe it isn't sometimes it's not at all plain but maybe it's supposed to be