I think of you, all the time- I really can’t help the hold you’ve put on me Chrysanthemums and roses To make my living place Look like it has an ounce of life residing in these four-chambered walls
Time is not, on my side Because I love you even more now than I did before Nobody has, the same grey hairs you do Same fearless aptitude Concerned look when I walk in the room You’re a lily growing in a field surrounded by vastness and open skies
I could cry The scariest thing about love, is that it cannot be replaced I remember looking at your face And knowing things will be okay, regardless if you were to turn away If I’m left in the dust, I’ll roll in it and breathe it in Draw elaborate diagrams of my lung damage because anatomy is my second language I miss your tooth enamel
On a Saturday, almost-afternoon Everything is perfect And I am crying, sipping my coffee Thinking that time has done nothing but grow my love for you
It’s so strong, like a branch that will never snap I wonder if you’ll ever figure out I love you like that
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Love poem: Skin (like a lavender sky)
See, if I speak with you I’ll fall in love with you All over again like an emerald green sky
Girl in a lilac sweater Has never felt better Than laying in the bed of your pickup truck As you pump gas Turn skeletons into ash Move like a menace, kiss me softly like that
You do the things you do solely to see how I’ll react But your closest friends would say you’re more good than bad
Love poem: Skin (like a lavender sky) : continued
So I pause Traceable glances, your advances Trail like a navy fleet approaches the bay Quietly, surely Ready to devour me Keen on microwaving things that are sour You turn entanglements of the moon into long-winded stories That few follow along with because inherently they don’t make sense Tar coal cave of parasites & diamonds Get your house cat to take care of the housing market finance
A river in the rain – water swallowing water, absorbing its high electron state Collapsing at the edges Falling through graphite Notes on my bedroom walls because I forget lavender interior paint is not a chalkboard A vessel for immunity Estranged from the community You only feel close to because you share a hometown with
Love poem: Skin (like a lavender sky): continued
I’d read you my words, that I rehearsed Collectively failing to portray the argument that I thought I had right Your posture will take with you to the grave The handwritten collages I made Of your favourite leaves to give to you for the holidays What a girl That sure thought
It would last, like it couldn’t Like the fever wasn’t on fire The skylight not screaming at me – “Go home, he’s worked too hard” To tear society apart For a girl whose art
Revolves around being in love & staying in it
Love poem: Skin (like a lavender sky): continued
See, if I speak with you (On the top of the aircraft, there are more pretzels) I’d laugh with you Make you smile and that would be too much for me to
Fall in love with you like a crisp lavender sky
You do the things you do solely to see how I’ll react But your closest friends would say you’re more good than bad
Love poem: Skin (like a lavender sky): continued
Patient and holy This girl is only Made of so much skin
Patient and holy This girl is only Made of so much skin
If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do the things you do If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do the things you do
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Poem: A city that’s lit by hesitation
I love when you spin your head towards the sea Make little effort in getting to know me Velveteen pink intoxicates you & gets you unglued Turkish golds in Marina del Rey Thought it was ironic I had no memories of that day We could pull the cord at the same time
He said He falls in love way too soon Well, that’s one way to push me away Cos if you don’t Want the love I’m giving you That’s one way to guarantee I won’t stay
Free-er than a girl in a sundress in a field of crystallized diamonds and wildflowers Did I hype you up too much I’m so used to sitting on the sidelines Perhaps I talked about my love for Chicago a bit much You temporize your moves to buy some time In the lights of the city, the hypnotic haze We were strolling along And I was thinking I could really be just about anyone
It’s not my cashmere Tiffany & Co’s, 2 pairs, credit card swipe Not about that, huh, too lavish for ya, huh I’m simple, I’m homemade, I might’ve been Too much of me for the you that you were showing me when you were standing with a cigarette & I thought you should dispose of that properly in a trash can Life’s so lavish when it’s only you that’s there for you I don’t live like that And I was thinking I could really be any other girl
He said He falls in love way too soon I thought well if that’s so, you should call a cab Cos I know a love that’s stronger than that Now that’s one way to push me away Cos if you don’t Want the love I’m giving you Yeah, that’s one way to collapse my stay
I’m in bloom every second of every day Chrysanthemums growing from the ends of my painted fingernails Met a guy that didn’t want to get me cut flowers I thought that’s no way to get through to me My skin grows every time I bleed Like just about everyone else in the universe But I want to matter I want to be more than a body I want to be a safe haven Now that’s one way to push me away I thought he should really call a cab
Born to sit on a staircase sippin’ a blue raspberry Icee Dandelions folding around my shoulders Cut it until it bleeds Unfold it until you find the serenity You locked away for nights like these
He said He falls in love way too soon I thought He should Really call himself a cab
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Love poem: Initials inscribed
I think I got a good one Don’t want to let him go But silk and satin separate here That’s really all I know
Got a gun in my purse I’m walking on the haunted hills I don’t mean to tell offbeat jokes But I like the way it makes you feel
Wavering and wandering, I can’t even see straight When I throw a dagger, I don’t know where it goes I don’t want to see red, but I’m so in love with colour Vivid, I like it vivid, I like the deep blues That scare you I’ve been there too Afraid to be in my own skin So I can try yours on Tailor it just right to fit you Give it to you back clean, with only my initials inscribed Between your clavicles in cursive font This is the way the world spins What are you waiting for, just get in Breathe a little bit in the boiling river with me
I can take you to I can take you to the brink of insanity Though you’ll find it’s more apricot and mesh than you could have dreamed I know what’s on the other side Flown there a billion times The places I don’t know, yeah they’re calling for me I can take you to the edge of insanity Show you how blooming and lovely it feels
A beach of all rocks, I’m made of charcoal – this much I know I’ll be your stepping stone When you find yourself alone and feel like nobody’s on the line Oh, I’ll come on by I drive faster than all the vehicles on the highway combined Immeasurable, transferable, soft with elegance and no hint of dismay I’m etched into the clouds for you Yeah, I’ll be there for you Show you a world that’s clandestine and brand new Got it on lock
I tailor my own skin So that it fits me just right So that when you look my way You see me in just the right light
Lie down on this river bed with me There’s no future, there’s no past There is only the space We occupy For the night
And if We separate I’ll have Pushed you In the direction you were heading anyway
Sweet boy Nothing to be scared of You know that You know that Don’t you now
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Poem: A million shelves
A maroon carcass that rests gently on the edge of the seashore Fresh propane tank Exclusively at your local corner store Wearing my baby blue doll dress Headaches from thinking about it
What we’ve been through I see it in the corners of this melting igloo Turn up the temperature Sit on the fire escape, heavenly embrace Homemade campfire, fire burning up your home As the water droplets cascade down I see fiber nectar start to turn upside down
Look through the hole on your door To see who’s been knocking all night long Cut the stems from fresh flowers in that old vase Hasn’t lost its sparkle The years are like lightning cables, but I’m so stable Looking through the hole in my door To see who’s been scraping at my windshield all night long
Such a romantic scene, velvet slippers & cleaning-service-fresh satin Mop up discarded memories I aim to please, I aim to please Now I put myself first And the whole world is to burn Too busy listening to jazz to look through the hole in the door You can leave a note You can leave a note
Notebook paper by my bedside Ash covers my deep green eyes You’d think I’d be surprised That disks of memories still replay in my mind While I drive in the rain Smiling, smiling all the way Thunder shifting my car Absolving into the reminisce that is the end of this year
Turn up the temperature Sit on the fire escape You tell people not to do what you really want them to Leave a note Leave a note
Be the bigger man Nine minutes until the fan Turns off for the evening & I’m left to writhe in this heat
Look after me Don’t look behind yourself when you walk down the street Holding a pomegranate smoothie Writing my website in sharpie on street signs
Be the bigger man Cradle your face in your hands Turn up the temperature Turn off the faucet Sit on the fire escape Leave a note and then toss it
The trash can that held a million versions of your most real self
