If my emotions have been mangled,
let us not say that they’ve been
disfigured or mutilated.
Let us just call them crushed—
ground into a fine powder
woven throughout my tapestry,
you / personally
you……………personally
…………your style and voice
Manipulate
They want to hold a marriage conference,
where we’ll all nod, say, “Oh yes,
marriage is hard,”
like it’s a grand secret, where we will not
say how, but we will all know
about Adam and Eve’s greatest practical
Acknowledgements
I
seem to have talked a lot,
so my
mouth is very dry,
Some Flesh
“Sorry, I was
talking to myself,” I say
to the imaginary
person who caught me
talking to an imaginary
person,
miss your it’s your all your
my hands miss your scent
my ears miss your taste
my brain, it’s your figure
my tongue, all your thoughts
Unfreeze
Maybe I should do the response that involves breathing,
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in the flickering starlight i know
after Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles
Schiz
Schiz
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Spiral Down Staircase
Weirdly good at breaking down,
been doing it since I was seven-
teen, been needing
to since I was
three, been needing to
take my time doing it, been
needing to
honor other people’s
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