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seems like you just started noticing how noticeably bad things really are and then you walk past this couple arguing in a rolled up window parked car an all that gesticulated bitterness an alla that muffled yelling hell it’s like it just starts wafting at you like a big furry rat died inside of that [...]
I bet you’re wondering if you woke today just to learn why the caged bird sings I bet you’re wondering if the goddesses are all crazy or just keeping it interesting situated slightly outside society at odds with its odd offerings I bet you’re teetering on the edge of sobriety just to alleviate a few [...]
I’m okay if you get me at a good angle and you’re okay in the sort of light and we don’t look like pages from a magazine but that’s all right that’s all right I crashed your pickup truck and then I had to drive it back home I was crying I was so scared [...]
Both Hands i am walking out in the rain and i am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again and i am getting nowhere with you and i can’t let it go and i can’t get through… the old woman behind the pink curtains and the closed door on the first floor [...]
they told you your music could reach millions that the choice was up to you you told me they always pay for lunch and they believe in what i do and i wonder if you miss your old friends once you’ve proven what you’re worth yeah i wonder when you’re a big star will you [...]
your body forshortened below your shoulders your face so close it’s out of focus way down the hallway comes the sound of your shoes this is when I think about when I think about you if we let our love off of it’s leash do you fear like I fear how fierce it would be? [...]
in walked a man in the shape of a man holding a hat-shaped hat and he held up two fingers and said “how many fingers?” and i said, “peace man, that’s where it’s at.” i said, you are what you do in order to prevent becoming what you’re busy not doing and if you do [...]
dig if you will the picture of you and i engaged in a kiss the sweat of your body covers me can you my darling can you picture this? dream if you can a courtyard an ocean of violets in bloom animals strike curious poses they feel the heat the heat between me and you [...]
you can’t hide behind social graces so don’t try to be all touchy feely cuz you lie in my face of all places but i’ve got no problem with that really what bugs me is that you believe what you’re saying what bothers me is that you don’t know how you feel what scares me [...]
You keep telling me I’m beautiful But I feel a little less so each time Your love is so colorful It flashes like a neon sign But I finally drove out where The sky is dark enough to see stars And I found I missed no one Just listening to the swishing of distant cars [...]
i’ve been wondering what you meant when you asked do you have a light? i’ve been wondering where you went when you left that party that night cloud blood smudge smeared on the sky it’s dawn’s roadkill i’ve been driving since midnight and i’m driving still stop on the top of the ridge just to [...]
My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was born in Nuremberg And when the trials were held there nineteen years ago It seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation all to blame For the horrors that the world did undergo A short while later when I applied to be a G. I. bride An American [...]
There you were day after day Six feet Twenty feet Two feet away Right in my pocket singin me a song Makin my heart race all day long And we talked it out and we talked it down But your eyes were not listening And my ears were looking around For another song to sing [...]
she came to and her whole life was how she remembered it she had a mouth full of fur and she was laughing she parked her hearse across three spaces posted for motorcycles only and jumped out shouting what the cus could make a nice girl like us feel so lonely? are you weary as [...]
she sat there like a photograph of someone much further away we shared a brief bus stop on one of those inbetween days she gave me her smile and I looked underneath at the lipstick on her teeth she asked me for a light and if I thought her hair looked okay we grew out [...]
hour follows hour like water follows water everything is governed by the rule of one thing leads to another you can’t really place blame cuz blame is much to messy some was bound to get on you while you were tryin to put it on me and don’t fool yourself into thinking things are simple [...]
you crawled into my bed like some sort of giant insect and i found myself spellbound that night at the sight of you there beautiful and grotesque and all the rest of that bug stuff bluffing your way into my mouth behind my teeth, reaching for my scars that night we got kicked out of [...]
the big day has come the bell is sounding i run my hands through my hair one last time outside the prison walls the town is gathering people are trading crime for crime everyone needs to see the prisoner they need to make it even easier they see me as a symbol, and not a [...]
Susan is a connotation At less than arms length She has the strength of an opinion Her promises are like the night overcast Like the stars she doesn’t show And when she does, she doesn’t last You can see her goodness Like her breath on a window pane And then she turns her head And [...]
we can touch touch our girl cheeks and we can hold hands like paper dolls we can try try eachother on in the privacy within new york city’s walls we can kiss kiss goodnight and we can go home wondering what would it be like if if I did not have a boyfriend we could [...]