Haiku
It feels much less like a kick in… but a slap in the face, I would say ‘fuck it’, but it wouldn’t adequately represe… that was lacked in,
The warmth of my tea, How lovely at six a.m. Oh! The little things.
I’m not a side dish, I’m not a left—over, you can’t put me away, you can’t save me for later, as with all things,
under florescents, the cigarette butts are like confe… glittering the sidewalk, with anxiety.
The language of love flowed freely… Through the rivers of our veins, During the summer we discovered ma… And razors edges. We used the torn corners,
You never loved me, Only the taste of my name, As it lingered on your slithering… Falling out, dripping, With poisons of promises,
‘We’re the same’, Teetering on edges of lines, I ca… And you say again ‘we are the same… Conflating words, Of an honest one,
I’m always enamored with, Short periods of time, With fantasies of, Your hand in mine.
I feel like I could vomit tears, But that wouldn’t suffice, For amount of years together, Exactly twice, I have no idea...
She melds into the rhythm, listening for a heartbeat, escaping into the fumes, her thoughts incomplete. She escaped through the cracks,
Flying out of the nest, At sixty mph, Four hours—without rest.
Stumbling over words, Like a child stumbles over shoe la… Left undone. Every word I want to say, Left undone.
I can’t say I know, The bed where you lay, The shape, color, and patterns, That makes up your day, I can only say now,
Last Night. Was the first night I had a thous… Perforating with tender thoughts i… Last Night. Was the the first night, in my lif…
Despite the rips in between the se… I can’t escape my bones, I can’t fight the dreams, So I wait but, I can’t manage to speak,
