and if the doorbell scares you we can hide in your mom’s closet hand in hand i’ll try and be brave for us and if the man turns the corner

you ask me if i have dreams and i start telling you about the… that haunt me when i try to sleep but then you look at me and laugh uncomfortably and say,

i’m tired of crying into my pages… with my mouth stuffed with blackbe… seeds spilling out and my tongue d… i want to lock myself up in the ba… to shatter the mirrors with shriek…

i’m asking you to sunbake me, politely. i want to melt into the cracks, like earth-ending dinosaur juice.

there’s something so forgiving in being angry on behalf of a chil… who no one was angry for.

i’m waiting for the good part, i’m praying real hard that it’s st…

i wasn’t really my mothers child, i was her idea of a child. but, unforgivingly, i wasn’t. i grew up like kudzu; over the lam… i went so far as to grow over the…

i want to cry and count all your f… decorate your face with stickers a… then maybe you could hold me and w… do you think?

i love you, so hurt me. ‘cause that’s how love works, right? make me cry,

please don’t leave me. you swing your legs, sitting on th… we used to climb it a lot after sc… are you saying you’d miss me? you… yes, fucking yes, i would.

sit across from me, with no space in between. chest again chest, and our legs folded awkwardly. wrap your arms around my neck,

i don’t want to grow up but god, i can’t wait to get older…

drunken stupor, apologies pouring… wish i were high but i can’t find… my parents don’t drink so i know a… here’s the thing: i’m not a good p… i yell and scream in my driveway t…

it’s embarrassing but, god i love, love, love you i’ll swear on everything i own, and everything i’ve ever wanted that i love you in ways i didn’t t…

i love breaking your heart. call me a sadist, i don’t particul… i’ll reel you back in like a trout…