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  • You can’t love someone into being ready and I know I know They aren’t here because I am  and I know I know They aren’t running because I am chasing  and I know I know  They aren’t leaving because I am staying  something’s broken The third eye drops down, sinking  testing my immunity  against the…

  • It all starts with a phone call From there, there is only one leap into the void I could probably go and knock on some doors and beg for a couple of minutes of small talk I can’t change their mind even when they open I am crazy.  I am mad. I am insane. Weaken…

  • chased obsessed with stalked harassed  inspired by drawn written about dreamed of  desired missed Owed Owned Objectified! misunderstood  (all the fucking time) craved  adored wanted to satisfy a fragile, precious thing  in the name of virility  bare minimum felt like the new indulgence  potentially promising potency  only on odd dates, but slowly detaching emotionally on…

  • I’d meet you on a random day in August I’d ask about the big 30 You’d ask back about my 28 So, how did you celebrate a crazy party, I presume You don’t know me very well, I’d say And add that I deep-cleaned my bathroom You’d gently smile as if you were certain that…

  • If you had asked me then what I wanted  I would have said nothing  But now Now I want the sky and the dead stars all of them I want their ashes stored deep in my tiger scars If you had asked me then what I wanted  I would have said lovely It’s just  The…

  • I keep talking to them as if they would understand me. I keep hoping they would. I keep holding space for their personalities to resurface – rise above and walk on water Fuck, my… suboptimal pain threshold of making mine yours rejecting hope as a dangerous habit ‘cause I knew, I knew I’d have to be…

  • I wouldn’t need a reason, you know that, right? I don’t have one now either. I’m just, it’s been two years, and you are still the only person…yeah, I won’t say that out loud. I was thinking the other day about our imaginary life in new york—the one you didn’t know anything about, because we…

  • This is a very serious poem with no hidden meaning I think it happened when you left the table while I was still eating I think—it’s happening again what has already happened when I kept reaching for nothing I stopped kissing lightly the lips that weren’t kissed but hunted  I joined forces with the foes,…

  • Eyes closed. I summon her images her face  her dimples  her body her stretch marks her touch  her touching my innocence with nowhere to go with no one to love  I live with imaginary paintings  among imaginary feelings I live in imaginary spaces among imaginary faces Did you call to find out if I was…

  • Crossing paths with strangers Avoiding their glances Always looking at their shoes Never at their faces, little Miss scaredy-cat is actually afraid Never missed a thing—thought she’d die defeated  If she passed you by. That must have been the universe finally breathing out after holding its breath for six months So that you know: The…