• I walk the same path every day
    tracking my traces in hopes I’d meet you again
    and say 
    all of this time it was just—character development 
    Upgrading a couple of now strangers to eternal soulmates 
    Hunting each other in turns
    My hips are hurting 
    Ice sharp, rocky covers for sale 
    My poems, let's say
    They are
    An altar for my saviour syndrome; Give up the ghost! 
    never - I scream at the wind, some things they 
    they never change
    
    I’ll sell my soul to an old gypsy
    and play pretend—perhaps you also noticed:
    All our favorite places have closed 
    since then
    I bet the sky was also blue
    I bet the city still remembers
    all the lives afflicted 
    I bet the metro witnessed
    all the stillness 
    of her tired metaphors 
    Running in circles like a mouse high on sugar 
    The internet says it’s a brain tumour
    Hanging by a thread
    In a wireless era
    Wire your brain to resist the calling of running
    when it finally finds you
    A little bit early
    in the middle of June
    prettiest girl ever
    with hips ice sharp
    wearing different coloured socks 
    
    So he said
    You are a bit too early 
    I'll hate myself if I have to run, but I have to
    I always do
    and out of nowhere 
    I want to cut all of my hair off
    Move to another country 
    Burn all your clothes 
    burn myself if I must
    
    Intrusive thoughts meaning
    The idea of being the only one sober
    In a crowded bar
    Haven't seen you in ages 
    I think I am drowning on land dry
    Hanging by a thread
    Leaving my body behind 
    
    Running in circles like a mouse high on sugar
    Tracing my steps 
    Hoping I'll meet you again 
    
    I’ll sell my hair to an old gypsy
    and play pretend
    I bet he also noticed that
    all of my favorite places have closed their doors
    since then   

  • I say I have nothing to say, then I proceed…
    saying
    more
    but as in
    rage-cleaning my bathroom
    at 2 am 
    ‘cause honey
    I remember the things you did
    and the things you didn’t
    The story is as old as the world
    the saddest ever
    one-way ticket
    I love you 
    But It is not enough aka I wanna fuck my coworker 
    we play tennis together you won't even say fuck out loud
    
    Choose your words wisely
    The pervading ones linger
    like a german shepart guarding 
    the sheepfold
    and where is the soul in this mess of a friendship, my love?
    A code word for losing feelings
    as if feelings were ever a reliable standing point
    
    I should find myself one of those
    a nice guy or something—they say that’s the pick of manhood
    It’s just
    I am obsessive, compulsive, and crazy
    In the older days, they were calling it love
    How many more obviously depressing, obnoxiously picket white fences do I have to set on fire? 
    As in rage-writing a novel about 
    all the things you apparently never really wanted (thanks for the headsup)
    but it’s ok, my darling
    I am good at making up stories 
    I know your intentions were good
    and you’re FINE anyway
    It’s just
    I’ve been writing a novel about all the things you weren't ready for
    It says I love you
    like a million times
    It lingers
    It lingers

  • my touch
    unworried
    first time seeing clearly after years of blindness
    I remember it all started as a joke
    shapeshifting as a way of hiding
    A very tall girl
    blindsided by the spotlight
    easiest thing ever
    making you feel cool
    my touch
    unworried even when
    yours…
    <sinking feeling>
    shallow
    mirroring your broken childhood
    made me feel worthless
    mirroring my broken childless efforts to please a small giant
    growing up too soon
    looking up to someone who’s chasing "experience" 
    foolishly worshipping the spotlight
    giving up virtue
    burnout days of the youngest daughter going to war for her man
    
    I’ll mother some more
    feelings of sonder
    I’ll father some more
    touches unworried
    saudades:
    for the boy performing 
    longing

  • the strokes; the Wednesdays; the stockings; the warm water; the sign of my teeth on your skin; the red is dry; the playlist 15; the date 15; the seven…all of the men you don’t mind touching me; the witch: the floral dresses; the long hair; the vanilla body milk; the nudes; the lace underwear; the weekly reviews; the slow eating; that apartment; that bed; the serenity; the Sunday mornings: the yoga studio across the street; the creepy dolls are seen from your window; the yellow flowers; the home-made dinners; my mispronounced words and your perfect English; the burned pancakes; your plants it’s a jungle now; my never-ending movie list; the 2am drunk kiss on the Charles bridge; the something sweet; the habits: the good, the bad, the boring, the weird; the closed blinds; the nightmares; the I need to see your face; the delayed flights; the bro and all of the unfinished; I locked myself out again; the don’t forget the keys; the parsley in your fridge; the head: the intimacy, the ownership, the lust, the greed, the rawness, the open windows, my loud noises; your hangovers; my late, slow mornings; all of the things you said you need to do with your life: my poems, your hoodies, my pillows, the little kiss of my shins; my hide your bitches, your she’s on her way to me; your I am still here; your we’ll figure it out; your you have me; the june: the black, the white, the blue, the boring, the weird…a scrunchie. 

  • Feeling like a guinea pig teaching devotion
    Got an endless list of unpaid internships 
    scamming middle-aged dudes on LinkedIn—claiming experience
    working for free, outsourcing injurious superstition
    You were supposed to be "home"
    Where are you now? 
    NYC’s got a new mayor
    We probably made the same joke
    about his very hot wife 
    dating apps for socialistic hearts, outsourcing precariousness
    precariously in love 
    but not them, no
    What about our loft in Brooklyn? 
    Use the big words
    Call me crazy again
    Scream!
    Do something, babe
    I’ll stay anyway—will you notice?
    like a rock waiting for time to mold me
    like the mold on our wet bathroom tile
    You never turn the ventilation on
    It dried-out 
    Somehow it’s worse
    crazy pathetic it’s your loss
    Stop romanticizing poverty! 
    I am already starving
    You called me a witch in the back of a cab 
    Outsourcing practical magic for dummies
    burn me, or something
    ‘cause
    how to finish
    If HE isn’t
    kissing my shin in the same way—I’ll say it happens sometimes
    Just do not rush, I’ll get there 
    the of old good days of those once in love
    What about our loft in New York? 
    It was not pornographic 
    It was existentially erotic
    but
    I’ll wait for someone kinder
    I’ll set reminders on Hinge
    Tinder's not it
    Moving across the ocean is only fun in theory
    ‘cause wait until you get the keys to your new apartment, and SHE isn’t me
    Provided Services: head 
    over heels 
    felt like a robbery
    And you said you wished you had some waiter experience 
    in a filthy bar 
    clearing the tables—living the life of a Buddhist
    You wouldn’t have lasted a week
    outsourcing fomo for dummies
    Stop romanticizing poverty! 
    I watched season 3 of White Lotus alone, where the fuck were you?
    Place of Work: NYC
    When I said do something, babe! 
    I meant, please come back or something
    What a pity
    devastatingly brutal 
    Haters will say I am hurting
    ...
    I guess I am

  • If it smells like lemons
    bitter and cold 
    If it looks like lemons 
    sun-coloured nipple-dry “thanks for the cab”  I'd say
    when the yellow-haired-love-of-my-life
    wants me kneeling at the bottom of his pelvic bone
    Or, 
    Perhaps 
    The sound of them hooves brought me back to a land of hope 
    It smelt like lemons 
    stinging feeling
    might bite!
    
    It looked like lemons 
    sun-coloured nipple-dry orange-like 
    but lemons
    ...
  • I am over you
    Or am I tripping?
    I am over you
    Or is the time just poorer?
    I am over you
    Or am I being ruthless?
    Have I cried all the tears at yoga? Do I have something left for the sidewalk?
    I am over you
    Or am I just keeping it cool during the week? Weekends are for eating pizza, rewatching Twin Peaks, and touching the bliss
    I am over you
    Or have I buried it 6 feet deeper?
    Have I ever been honest?
    Unlikely—a crybaby with sharper cheekbones
    I am over you
    early in the morning, when the sun rises
    I see rainbows in your hair, and
    your motionless body is peacefully sleeping 
    or
    you wake up first, eating your protein bar in the kitchen
    I hear the door
    you slammed before leaving when rushing to work—I haven’t left that bed yet
    maybe tomorrow, or the day after that
    compulsively drinking magnesium, iron, and more
    Will I ever awaken?
    I am over you
    Or have I forgotten to look for the only living boy in this city?
    Some days are harder than others
    Most of them are just days I keep eating my food in my kitchen in slow motion, and
    looking over my shoulder
    Nobody’s coming, I just look over 
    lovingly 

    I am over you
    Or am I just hiding inside the apartment where all my stuff is? I don’t even think I miss you
    It’s just, you haven’t even seen my new place
    funny tho, you seem to be everywhere, and
    I wouldn’t want anyone in my house
    except your motionless body sleeping peacefully in my bed
    eating protein bars in my kitchen
    Taking showers—too long
    making my puzzle, completing the circle of desperate lovers
    kissing 
    a crybaby with sharper cheekbones
     Am I over you, or simply pretending it's over?
    I keep forgetting leftovers I promised I’d eat
    stored deep in your fridge
    I am over you
    Or has my hair grown longer? How much length does it take to forget 
    the last three letters of spring? 
    And what do you say when it’s over anyway? And what do you say when it’s not?
    I am over you 
    It’s too late
    I am torn
    draining shit
    Do you still want it? Let’s fix this—how? idk
    It doesn’t move on
    It simply is
    early in the morning when the sun rises, and
    your side, still empty, of the bed you never slept in, ‘cause everything’s haunted 
    I live in my head with the ghosts unwanted 
    impolite company taking way too much space
  • It's my turn to play coward
    Run away and hide my bones
    Just to kiss the face of a scarifying Casper
    playing a crowd—he was too
    just a boy once
    forgotten by fate
    Or, at least
    stay there 
    where there is no sign of death or gravestones
    in between
    How dreadful of me to get horny for a ghost
    I think about you often when I...

  • Tell me something
    a story about a little girl with hazel eyes running
    in circles waiting for a life worth living
    wearing a dark green hoodie 
    still remembering the humming of 4 Sons
    forthcoming, the voices hazy
    Tell me something light, like the dust on old books or the first day of winter 
    when it smells like cold, velvet scarves, wrinkles 
    around your mouth 

    Cover your body with a shirt 
    navy color I see
    When I catch your eye, I take my clothes off 
    I want to make you beg for me
    Nostalgic depression—in the elevator, 4th floor
    doors closed, moving swiftly
    I want to make you beg for more
    watching the back of my head in the mirror

    Come closer - I am done crying, stay in my life as much as you like
    Here, drink some water, my darling
    I want you to sleep in my bed, build a fortress of pillows, wake up early, and dance when you eat
    tell me nothing about love—I want to make you beg for me
    Tell me something about darkness
    It must have hurt when your grandpa died
    Tell me how your heart gets smaller every time you can’t remember 
    where you’ve placed your keys
    That one time in remission, he knew your name for a minute
    You look like your brother, he said
    and never called to mind again
    Tell me something about losing control—the leader of all the holy angels
    I want you always, I want you sleeping safe, bare in my bed 
    Tell me something about forever
    It must have hurt when you got that gotta talk message
    She didn’t say goodbye
    She said nothing
    I thought you were going to leave me
    just like
    When my grandpa died
    I still see him conducting orchestras
    Each musician only hears the one leading, but never the others—they drive in the dark
    Tell me something about the time you felt like running
    because you look like your brother, he said
    and never called you by your name again
    It’s mai btw.
    Tell me something about forgetting
    I am happy, I promise
    Tell me a story about that warm, bright morning, and her first words were:
    I am still alive, not a serial killer, that’s nice
    reaching for your arm
    the lips
    only just meeting the shape of his head
    forthcoming, the voices hazy
    hazel eyes unflinching 
    I want you to beg for more
    Give me the light at the end of the tunnel
    If there is something at the end of this maze—I want you always, sleeping safe in my arms
    Tell me again about the time you felt like choking
    at the look of the wounded creaking soul
    I remember the day 
    She didn’t kiss me goodbye
    She took her book when she left
    She hasn't stopped crying since then
    ...
    so I heard

  • you are still upset 
    makes me look bad, really 
    makes me feel like an asshole
    
    I said, I know it's been a while, and 
    I don't know why I am still crying
    I guess I am just tired 
    of
    abandoning myself like a homeless child
    what I really wanted you to hear 
    was:
    Why aren't you sad also?
    How can you not be missing me?
    Or is the dying quietly milder than the missing out?
    When you slept with that teammate of yours, was she a part of that friend group from work?
    Or perhaps she was the ultimate girls' girl by
    leaving a cheap-reeky scrunchie behind…
    A good time in my favorite bar? doubtfully a nicer fuck.
    I’d hate myself if it wasn't that—awake 
    in the dead of the night, all soaking
    always blonde, nails painted, not even pretty
    You went alone on that vacation
    Soul Searching 
    sipping Negroni in an overpriced hotel lobby
    all by yourself, never missing, never needing anyone 
    meeting that one old-ass couple 
    giving you perspective on company, quiet vows, staying kind
    They said, you think you have the time, but you don't really
    You only have now—wisdom tooth is crooked! 
    Tell that girl that you're still lurking 
    Trust us, she knows, but
    do it soon…right now even (!)
    before you run out of exposure
    you gotta trust they won't kiss&tell why you couldn't without love <awkward silence>
    You returned all hopeful
    called me late at night
    saying 
    let's grab a drink next Saturday, but what you really wanted me to hear 
    was: 
    missed you
    kinda' awful 
    not moving to the Big Apple—they did reject my visa twice 
    Maybe next year, after my birthday 
    I’ll try, right…only when you want it badly enough 
    I couldn't get out of bed on Sunday 
    I wouldn't understand
    You weren't missing me, it seemed like 

    I went on our vacation

    Just me, and 
    that one old-ass couple said
    If you really love that one person, make sure she knows 
    You think you have time, but you really don't
    and all the pretty faces—nothing more than the illusion of a choice
    If you think about that one girl often
    Call her, tell her you’ve been thinking 
    "You’ve done much thinking"
    You went on that vacation, and met an old-ass couple
    Best Friends
    Happy
    They were barely talking—but you don't need words when there is intimacy 
    They gave you some perspective 
    And you see it now (!)
    All the important things have always been important
    
    It's just 
    It's been a while
    of
    abandoning myself like a homeless child, and 
    I can't understand why you aren't crashing out
    I saved your face in front of my friends, yours know me as the crazy ex
    Why isn't she blocked yet? 
    
    That time in Munich—leaving it all behind 
    Taking you to strip clubs
    Updating your dating apps 
    You need a rebound! 

    Unless it’s daddy’s issues for men—and here I am, still wearing your hoodies, and my hair is long again

    Until
    That old friend comes knocking 
    You left the door cracked open when
    You swore it was locked when
    You swore it was true when
    You said like-like
    You said me too 
    Your loyalty would be feeling like cheating 
    Borderline abusive, she wasn't even pretty 
    
    Lol.