The thought of you and I
Is like a chimpanzee
Shouting French at me,
"Vous etes un singe",
With each swing by.
The thought of you and I
Is like the measured laugh,
The type the short giraffe
Has learnt will fall
From those up high.
The thought of you and I
Is like a lion at rest
Trying to pump its breast
For one last roar
Or one last sigh.
dear you,
i like you so much i want you
to snake your arm down my
throat and tug me inside out;
bend down your head to my black
eastern seagull and kiss it, find
my liver and apologise. i want you
to pluck the old snowflakes from
my stomach and watch them spill
across the pub floor.
your hands can live in my jeans
if you want. you can bite down
on my fingers.
life's for the brave, for the people
who aren't afraid to say FUCK and
drink bad beer. so i'm gonna get on
this bus! i'm gonna shave my head!
i'm gonna drink this tequila sunrise
and crane my head to the moon
like its your face in the morning.
it doesn't matter how
+ Take down the walls and try to find the pink bowels of your house.
Squeeze your pupils like you need to, as if you are trying to squeeze
a blackhole out of it. Swim in the mirrors like you're in love, or on fire.
Pedal faster.
+ Tell your melon coffee sweater to screw off. Tell your mother
I said hi. Tell the particles you inhale to slow down.
+ Turn on the radio and listen to the politicians polish and wax.
Tell Alaska she is not good enough. Fire a handgun and
look surprised when you do. Inhale the smoke like it's your mother's
purple ashes. Talk about
Don't let language screw you.
You'll use it like excuse,
but people bore you
and Nothing seems new.
So sweat it out,
just grab your friend
by the shoulder hug
cry it out
fists folded,
out on the line,
let your worries dry.
The only way to live exists
in the heat between seconds.
some seconds are longer by Awasteof-paint, literature
Literature
some seconds are longer
im just a little girl drinking wine and
some man is breaking down my door.
hes tall and
he goes to the lake every night
to wash the pen ink off his hands
and fill the spaces in between his fingers.
but tonight its chest on chest on mattress on floor.
voids are swallowed or maybe theyre just swallowing,
swallowing the past half hour. and i ask him, what now?
what do you want?
he wants a twenty dollar bill, some dope,
and maybe a kiss on the cheek.
his knuckles went under my shirt
and my stomach met new bruises.
he said hed be right back
and i said id be right here.
with my scis
paint by numbers and my writers block
are having sex again. i can't do anything
creative on my own anymore. we are
scattered snapshots, disorganized,
not in order, and i'm my own "out of order"
sign on a bathroom stall door in a public
washroom. my clavicles won't let go of my ankles.
i sleep in diagonals and wake up with
"i-slept-all-wrong" and "i-have-a-stiffness-
in-my-neck-and-a-crick-in-my-back."
i had intercourse with purity,
i used dirt as laundry detergent,
i slept with insomnia as my pillow,
and this morning i ate my hygiene
in the shower. tan lines were typewritten
on my cheeks when i wore your ugly
fingers. you
If you are looking for things to put vodka in
do not choose milk. If you find yourself wandering the
house like a ghost, like a futureless cloud,
do not choose milk. If you are wishing for a vice.
Wishing to smoke or drink or fight or slice or break.
There is nothing in the world that will give you this.
When your thoughts turn to the cold white virginal
taste of another animals toil. Do not choose it.
Take the coffee instead. The bitter brown sense of loss.
Take that instead.