A boy named Michael ate his dreams while he slept.
He always managed to vomit them back up…though.
When he woke to the sun, all he would find were pieces and fragments left wedged in his teeth, a lingering bitter taste, and a better “him” just simmering below the surface; shown with a bitten, bleeding tongue.
Fingers thoughtfully crawled along his blankets, his clothes, and through his hair, back arching to look over at the ringing bells shaped as a modern-day digital clock. His heart continuously pounded in his chest and out of sync with the background, as if recently jumping off a very high place, only to be stopped righ
A boy named Michael ate his dreams while he slept.
He always managed to vomit them back up…though.
When he woke to the sun, all he would find were pieces and fragments left wedged in his teeth, a lingering bitter taste, and a better “him” just simmering below the surface; shown with a bitten, bleeding tongue.
Fingers thoughtfully crawled along his blankets, his clothes, and through his hair, back arching to look over at the ringing bells shaped as a modern-day digital clock. His heart continuously pounded in his chest and out of sync with the background, as if recently jumping off a very high place, only to be stopped righ
I trip over
the sex in your words
it dancebeats each syllable
into the rhythm of submission
to your desire
of thrusting or being thrusted
plain letters draped
in shades of sultry black
only visible to the connoisseur
of linguistic lust
while virgin eyes remain blind
to their deflowering
the twist of your subconscious power
to exude your curves
in the guise of thoughtful
genteel non-fiction
I fall
wantingly
You taste like decaying leaves
and October's bad habits-
when it’s halfway through February
that still haunts these bones.
I have allowed you to
claw your love
into my arms
and chant into my
uninterested ears
for much too long.
I wish I was one of those girls
who could say wild flowers
grow up through my nooks
and my crannies just to tear
through my skin, screaming.
I’m just that dead eyed deer
on the side of the road dreaming
of shoving a pen down my throat
and writing these verses inside out.
I am no scribe, prophet, or spell caster.
I know it.
My skin knows it.
My pen knows it too.
Years and years
from now
my mind will d
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I’d be lying if I said
I didn’t want to spend those nights
Watching the moon hang between your pupils
Like a cadaver strung up high and dry
In the brittle November air.
But there’s something about that road kill smile
That was too fast, too cruel
You were intangible and indistinct
In the way you’d shake your cigarette packet
Hearing the contents rattle like a self-contained thunder storm
You were always like that,
So painfully self-aware you tried to suffocate yourself
In such a way that it was neither poetic nor beautiful
Rather disjointed in mathematics and skewed logic.
You were not romantic or tragically beautif
I wedged the remains of your bus ticket veins
And chloroform sticky notes under the floor boards
Concealing them, out of sight out of mind, but I swear
Sometimes at night I can hear them crunching
Vowels like bones between their molars
Aching for the flesh and thesis of pretty little girls
Filmy and crackling like static between the slopes
Of your shoulders, those quiet spaces between
The short lived confessions and pulpits of your
Half assed convictions and lovers trysts.
Hardly left any room
For the gods to reside in the pieces of heaven
That you scattered across the carpet
Of your apartment floor
in hopes of catching angels between ash