I flash your face into the corners of all the time I have. All the living people I love stick me into my days. The songs I remember the sounds cars make and the smell of frying fish. I flash your face onto the outer reaches of this so it will push me back and keep me here. Your face and the people and the songs moving me towards and away from death. How can our love me simple?
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Dear God,
I set up my words like dominoes, little rectangles with bone colored dots. Like dominoes they are flat and stack and fall. And like the dominoes mom bought at Krogers, they are plastic and crappy. You broke my heart, motherfucker. So now I'm using the word heart like a retarded Disney movie. Think with your heart, Simba. But still, in my chest, under my ribs, in the milk space of my small boobs, it feels broken. It feels like I swallowed glass that's now embedded in my chest cavity. With the stupid heartbreak from before I'd always mark a point in the future and know that by the time I got to it, I'd feel a little better. All the pain from before was finite. My fragile rowboat floating through time comforted me. But nothing comforts me now. |