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hydro bills

i have been destroyed by love been wrecked by it been tossed lost and forgotten by love   i have been spit on by love molested wasted and disrepaired   love has turned me off from love has made me come to love has shown me there is more than love in love and without … Continue reading

that that’s left

when was the moment you thought you weren’t valuable anymore   was it when you had all the memories and none of the friends   when life stewed in nine months matured in many more and was ruined in ten seconds by another mix just as complicated and long   when i was supposed to … Continue reading

weep what you sew

Dear dear, There was a time when you dated these letters but I don’t know when it happened. I would say that is my biggest failure, save for the fact that I referred to it as it, and worse yet, I did it again. But I don’t. It could be today. Yesterday. Some other sad … Continue reading

to be read later

couldn’t stop the smoking so i swallow the cigarette   couldn’t coo the crying so i tether the tissues   couldn’t mend the ending so i look as you leave * swallowing you alive in gasps that tell of a story of something besides me spilling myself at your feet where i sift and slip … Continue reading

route o

the following is not good. but neither am i. * so familiar the hand holding at a distance to bring another close while here the cold circles like sleepless nights or a tree already cut wondering where the fallen fruit goes if flowers shine around   * to see with my own eyes my eyes … Continue reading

untold

i suppose you want to hear how it all went away where the words that were never said go and the dreams unaccomplished rest among the children of an eunuch and the camp fire stories told by prometheus but i am tired of this language there is so much noise in us already the bannister … Continue reading

what was his name again

what do you tell her   do you say that i would fart loudly in public   do you recall when i would snore with spit pooling like a failed birth   do mention that it took me six long months to love you and only four short years to lose that love   do … Continue reading

contact light

you are leaving to the typography of unopened letters and uncooked meals where you say i am changing constantly but that may mean i may come back to me when i wasn’t i   this person already gone this person already unready this person who wants that one   with her dress floating as jellyfish … Continue reading

533

it is 532 this is you leaving   worn wet hand on a lumpy handle that hangs in a pattern that will never be repaired   1 minute before you go you try to mouth something that sounds like the wind 30 years from now on a sail boat going across the world even if … Continue reading

happy ending

how is it that there are still sad words to be written   where a familiar face disappears into the frown of procedures of did you check your bag take off your shoes have a good flight   where all sunsets end and all sunrises do too   where a child is laughing while playing … Continue reading