take my hand.
take it and throw it to your fan-fucking-tastical
metaphorical sharks. build walls, burn bridges,
act cliche like you always do. make sure your
building has no elevator, and no stairs for me
to climb.
tell her she is beautiful and
kiss her-no, not quite yet.
forget about her for
eight weeks and
make girls cry.
hey, you suck.
i guess i do too, if we are so
similar.
if we are really a
match.
she handles things, dirty and overpriced.
she handles things imperfect and pays for
them with other people's money. she likes
things that
postman knocks.
letter for liz.
nobody is home to find it.
nobody is home to say
liz does not live here anymore.
sorry, mister postman.
girl, to postman:
why are you always here,
don't you know?
love, friend.
postman keeps coming back.
girl is intrigued.
we can run away.
i bet you don't even understand.
i do not believe in love, but i might be in it. you make me
believe, because, hey! i love your smile, your warmth, so
why can't i love you, too? i would die for that smile.
we can hold hands and run. just run away to a place where
we can be friends and pretend lovers and kings on thrones
made of lillies, poinsettias, and death. we can rule jungles
as if they were cities. we can turn cities into forests.
but none of this will matter, because, hey! if i love parts of
you then maybe i can
just love
you, too.
we can be together and we can be in love or in something
and it can be fant
'okay, let`s wish together.' is what he said
to her, and she told him yes and they danced
and sang and ran on the borderline of love
because they are teenagers and that is what
teenagers do. she will grab his hand and they
will kiss and it will be magic. so magic that
she will have a highhigh selfissteam and he
will forget that she is breaking in his hands
and they will say that their happiness is for
forever and eternity even though she knows that
forever and eternity is really only until
next friday, because she is not a hold onto kind
of girl and he is not a holding on kind of boy.
even though he thinks that forever and
e
addiction.
a-d-d-i-c-t-i-o-n.
she scribbles the word into her
left hand, ties it to a heartstring
and flyflyflies it like a kite.
her eyes are a powdery-blue tear
stained mess. she can`t take more
steps. quiet words crawl up to her
and enter her skin through her toes,
she is a mess.
her routine is simple. broken,
fixed, broken, fixed. lose more
pieces of yourself. break again.
be fixed by pretty words that
promise you no more hurting
and you`re okay, and i love you
and am not going to lose you.
"stop."
she can`t. she is pushpushed and
keeps up her running. the words
dry her mouth, and her fingertips
are tired and
she fe
she walks down a desolate
path, littered with things,
dirty and destroyed and
used. her eyes kiss the
pavement as she strides with
confidence and contradictions.
behind glass windows, shadows
dance, and seem to call to
her, but she only walks faster,
as if in fear. the streets seem
abandoned, really, and she seems
to half-enjoy that. she does
not appear to know where to
go, or more possibly, she is
inspecting the fine detail in
her sight`s man-made lover,
ignoring cries to turn towards
glass and see what she was not
invited to join.
of course, she is only human, and
the glass creaks in anticipation,
and sha
the unblossomed clouds began to
weep that morning, and the raindrops
did not spell out your name.
she shimmied, tiptoed,
catwalked around puddles of unused-
never usable words and letters,
enough to fill a traincar. an
entire skyway, tracks of
verses litter her mind and crawl
out of her eyes, but you tell her
she is just okay, there is nothing
wrong. she purges herself of asthmatic
secrets, supposedly only for two.
her shoes, tap-tap-tapping an essay
into the granite slab she stands on,
her rough, teenage-heartstrung lies.
listen. close. breathe.
flowers did not bloom in her footsteps
that day, and they were not nurture
cold against my skin, your fingertips feel
divine. like the plate i broke once, i try
to re-connect, guide your hands to where
they should be.
(in mine)
but you, so pretty, porcelain. you are a
scholar, and will not be content until you
have mapped my every bone with your palms.
my every curve, with veins for y
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i take it back, im not okay
im nervous, im nervous, im nervous.
(ive always liked three times.)
can you feel my heartbeat reverberate
in my throat, i cant touch the ground anymore.
(you never liked telling me i was beautiful.)
there was always an intensity i think
you wanted that i never had. always a
certain degree of smile that i
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static hearts cant be packaged
take one.
i guess i should have always known i was kind of
a natural disaster. maybe you are florida, (i
hear it never rains there) but i am manila, or
new orleans. you compared my tears to drizzles
and hurricanes, or floods, because you've never
really been that creative. i told you, your eyes
are like perfect green fields, and dont you ever
cry because they get just enough water the way
they are.
i guess my hands are earthquakes, i could never
stop the tremor.
i guess my stomach is a tornado, my body is a
lightning storm and my eyes are tsunamis.
i guess there is a chasm where my heart should be.
(it was beautiful, for
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matchstick houses are castles
we lived in matchstick houses and
licorice forests. you called me baby
and i called you sweetie, honey, dear.
you took my hand and lead me straight
into life lessons, like how to casually
throw in a cuss word, like a hello-smile.
you taught me that when people throw
orange peels, paper plates and axes at
you, it only means they love you.
i taught you what it really means to
be sedated emotionally, and how to win
a girl in fifteen steps.
spencer, it's okay to walk around
in a too-big shirt and eat two-week
old brownies.
spencer, you told me i would be prettier
with blue eyes, or green eyes, or any
color other than cinnamon.
t
dearest blair,
sometimes i wonder if we share a
nervous system, only you got the
half that works better.
---
dearest blair,
i think you tolerate me as best
as anyone could ever, even
though i am obsessed with things
like static electricity, doilies,
rollercoasters, and stars.
even though i am agoraphobic.
(you are okay with me
being a shut in.)
---
dearest blair,
one day i will buy us a pack of
band-aids, the kind with dinosaurs
all over them, and we can stick
them on our faces, then stand
on my balcony and yell out at the
grains of people down below,
"i'm jurrasic!"
---
dearest blair,
sometimes i don't thank you enou
i'll be the princess and you be the prince,
even when i'm still looking for my frog.
SOMETIMES I HAVE NO WORDS FOR YOU
SOMETIMES I HAVE NO WORDS FOR YOU
SOMETIMES I HATE WRITING ABOUT YOU
i promise to stop cooking, baby. my soul could
never take the heat.
(the eggs weren't that good, either.)
get me out of there, get me out, out, out. get
me out of there before i fistfight the paper
leaves you left me with, telling me to be artsy
to my souls content. you forgot, though, that
pages burn in ovens.
I DID NOT WRITE MY DREAMS FOR YOU
I DID NOT WRITE MY DREAMS FOR YOU
I WILL NOT SHED MY TEARS FOR YOU.
bang.
i said that i would maybe be switching accounts,
and by maybe i meant for sure, okay.
i'll give this account like three days,
and then it's sayonara, au revoir,
what ever word
you want to use.
ps. if you want, you can
look for me! i would like that.
kind of like
a scavenger hunt.