i didn’t know the quilt wasn’t finishedor i would have waited to use itbut i realized this too latewhen i noticed all the pinsstuck in medozens piercing all the way throughmy hands and feetthe bed full of sharp ends i start with tweezersbut it’s a big jobso i ask dad for plierspulling them out inContinue reading “nocturne: voodoo doll”
Tag Archives: pain
more than when you tried
oh darlin i aint never heardnothin as sad as youcryin out in drunken pain yer cards close; not a gamblerbut the mirror in yer voiceshows yer hand babe i get why yer hurtinya dont gotta say it out loud& i guess neither will i a piece of this messll always beyers, love o minedidnt workContinue reading “more than when you tried”
uncool ways of decathecting
maybe the hands-on bruisesnever faded & just slipped silentunder skin’s surfacelike a necklace i’ll never removewith a clasp i’ll never reach the first boy i ever kissedtried to kill his wifesome dramatic double suicide thingwith an insanity plea& daddy’s lawyers bought him outdodged that bulletby diving into trenchesstrangled out of breathwith nothing so inchoate asContinue reading “uncool ways of decathecting”
this is a long drive for someone with nothing to scream about
here’s a long one for you two motherfuckers off in distant lands see there’s this guy i used to worship fell in art with him the way i fell for you, & you but harder, somehow these things never go the way you want them to you watch them get lazy you watch them getContinue reading “this is a long drive for someone with nothing to scream about”
mattress dungeon 