PLEASE
to have it be only for me
beating for me with chanting echoes
sneaking in under every familiar smell
your clothes are stained with wine
grotesquely clinging to your teeth
holy holy snow
and awful filthy wine
the gray dust of shoestrings
before you twisting wraithes
threaten to peel you apart
flying back to their caves
would you once loo...
Tuesday 6th June 2023 11:54 pm
LITTLE TEETH
pleas
pleas all around
and let there be
please and more please
we just want to breathe
and forget
we can't even move
we are haunted
we know you didn't want to
that little town
was so small
it barely held us
know this is not by chance
you made pies
you dressed like a boy
you sm...
Tuesday 6th June 2023 12:55 am
JESUS WHY
is it because of the art
sleeping bags out on the lawn
cancer and rot and golden flowers
pillows for people
you hold all the secrets
we lay down next to you
to tell you how precious
you slept in your car and you went crazy
shooting beams of light from your fingers
what makes you want to wreck yourself
like when you tried to sleepwalk
...Tuesday 6th June 2023 12:39 am
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