lover today is the day of remembrance& i hear your name spoken loudlya raw wound still crying for your voiceto speak meaning into the bleakoh i understand the hurt & lossbut the salt is sweeter on my lips in the eternal month when you were mineyou promised death has a purpose& begged me: say itContinue reading “remind me tomorrow”
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when i think of you i picture things forged from iron
in from the coldyour head full of spidersspins straw into goldyour nerves feed each othergiving birth to the liethat it’s all gonna breakjust like always, old manthe long years only take but we sat in our roomsand we drank even moreboth alone, sunlight weptlike a festering sorei knew you, i loved youwe had years inContinue reading “when i think of you i picture things forged from iron”
absent muse blues
earlier this yeari was closer to deaththan i’d ever beenaware of beingand the calm descendedbecause isn’t that what i came forwhy else do you fly outto stay with drunk strangerswho love gunsbut the moment passedand the adrenaline fadedinto seven hourson the side of a highwaywith two cigarettesand nothing to eat i could say i amContinue reading “absent muse blues”
beach 6, pt ii
there was a letter i wroteand destroyed for youthe contents escape mebut they were probably a declarationof love with a strong dramatic flairthe destruction dramatic as wellbut i suppose destruction usually is i wonder what you felt that dayat the edge of the waterwhen i took your picture looking outand slipped a rock into myContinue reading “beach 6, pt ii”
cassavetes pt ii
a suicidal instinct can manifest in one’s choice of partner we push each other out of line and hope to make chalk lines out of these piles of snow when he says: let’s drink and drivei spring for the 12% abvwhen the road twists aheadmy laugh echoes off the shale wallsi know which songs toContinue reading “cassavetes pt ii”
you’d like me better burning
we only get this one life & we’re setting it on fire how cool is that? even the xtians know jesus had to die for what came next & maybe we’re running toward destruction because we know how it saves my religion is my mother’s: we both love a reckless dead man who told usContinue reading “you’d like me better burning”
mattress dungeon 