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em Feb 2019
put your underwear on
light a candle at 4 am because today
i do it backwards.

last night there was no walking
she sat with heavy, swinging *******, expectant

she disregarded all the ***** on the floor
her smoke mixed with the salt from my tears and the reaction
was instantaneous
what she wanted mattered to me
last night

she knows my skin must shed all this chaos
feel smooth and and young and free
and so she sets the pattern, the swing
of things

three times around we go
i tap her below her spine as i smoke
with her red lip prints on the ends
i don't mind

ive vaporized now
a freak tangled in my bed alone
she can be a shadow to squint at when dilated
i cant make out the naked moon or
my naked mother
or the beach littered with my smokes.

a beautiful woman to be
rejected by
left with her moans still
suspended in the air
above the
bed.
em Feb 2019
that way i can't hear what they all say about me and how **** i was at poetry. that was my thing, my need to be more brilliant and tortured than my neighbor.
all men want to run fast.
but not all men want to
fly.
em Feb 2019
last night i woke up on the floor. or at least
i think i did, and even that was maybe a year ago because
time isn't real, and anyone who thinks so or lives by the minutes will die before any sane person tells them to ignore the ticks. ****, they don't even realize time doesn't make noise. the slow inevitable marching? that's silence.

i remember when i was about eight or nine, a very young girl in a very blue school, my hands practically glued to the wood in front of my face every day for morning prayer. and hell, i swear, religion is delusion and time isn't real. anyone who prays to anything other than what they can see is only making excuses.

i remember being this young girl and loving the pain i was in, yet later learning this pain was called **** and this **** would be the next nine years of my life before i recognized it in the dictionary.

i did not stray from this pain, i did not stray from the abnormality of Christianity as a way of ****,  i did not stray from the fact that a woman wanted my body as much as i wanted a friend. i did not stray from the fact that a woman could ****.

even though i knew Adam and Eve loved each other, i hadn't ever heard of Eve and Eve and Eve and a little girl like me, and so on.
i knew what *** was before this, but of course considered it holy and equally unholy, something my small and shaking hands didn't get to feel.

was i wrong to assume that? maybe.  i think i remember loving it, or maybe only because love goes with *** and *** is beautiful and it happened to make me. was i a victim? of ****? of love? i cannot think much more of this at a time, it makes me feel as though i am crazy.

i have definitely lost control. i have made dents in the walls, smashed and shattered objects around the house, not even my house. i have screamed, yes, and cried till i can't hear myself cry and i have shook and shook until im surprised i don't fall apart or bite my tongue off. but how much control did i have to lose?

i do not write as much as i used to, perhaps i am too concerned over aesthetic, do i sound poetic? even if i don't, words are words, however abstract or ugly, they hold truth
perhaps i should write more.
i do relish the occasional purgatory.
releasing sin is necessary, even those you never committed.

we all need a little guilt in our lives.
em Feb 2019
theyre running, and pretty fast too
they might trip i think
they seem pretty desperate to get to me
i might run too
do i?
lately i have become interested
in letting fate
decide for me
cuz im tired.
whose to say
i get mauled
and shot
or do i keep on walking.
em Feb 2019
i am like a gray cloud
not pretty in this sky.
i disappoint and displeasure
all the passerby.
this depression
is not a "this" thing
it just
is.

its me.
em Feb 2019
white dog sits
beneath the tree
questioning
the man
who gave him a warm
bed
his finger is cold when white dog
licks it

white dog has to crane his head
even farther
than he ever has to
see the mans face
he's not sure why
but the man doesn't shoo him
when white dog nibbles
at his shoes

white dog has never seen the
man like this before
he sits and waits for him to
throw something
white dog has never waited this long
for anything

he decides he'll wait
near the radio
the man always plays a tune
or two
for white dog and him
so white dog goes
and sits
and practices patience
like the man taught him

white dog falls asleep
and when he wakes
no song comes from the radio,
and he sees the man
sleeping funny
beneath the tree
and as he cranes his head
one last time
white dog could swear
that tree had lost
a limb
em Feb 2019
have you ever cried so hard
so fully
that you are afraid to look at yourself
because





you might actually
show through.
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