You see right through my smile. I don’t say anything, but you claim that I’m not okay. You accuse me of hiding from you. You want me to talk. You want me to open up. I have to say there are way more important things right now. How can take care of myself when I’m
Read more →Well, I finally said goodbye to you. And when you said goodbye back–that was it, just a single word, when I’d written you an essay–I began to cry. I always cry at endings. But you know? I was right. I knew this would make me happy. I’m fine, I’m good. Happy. For the first time
Read more →I dreamed of you again last night. You look as you always do in my dreams, which is to say you looked as you did when I loved you. I’m glad you have changed so much. If you hadn’t it would be more than I could bear.
Read more →Mother- I know you want me to be a singer. I know that when you tell your friends that your daughter is going to be famous it excites you, you feel so proud. I know I’m very talented, I know I could go far, and I know you want me to. But when I’m on
Read more →Transmission on high automatic, pumping finesse through piston-like arms firing on all cylinders to the music beat the dance explodes throbbing psychedelic as I saw her face unsheathed from the sweat-soaked air. “Hello there.” Whirling through the throng to tell her this, she spots me first, the stobelight takes our picture through the glitter-glammour of
Read more →Short, brown hair – that’s me all over. Short hair, you were seated behind me in class, turning my head like the coin that I flipped down a wishing me well, my attraction to you grew deeper and deeper the farther I travelled down airborne. Suspended in midair by your brown roots like bait on
Read more →Baby, my hand sails in your skin, Gliding in the lines of your palm, Meandering straight-up your finger ridges, Swirling in the whorls of your fingertips. Baby, the blush pink of your nails Turn white as my hand knocks on Their doors and visit and carnation Pink when they kiss it to leave. Baby, my
Read more →For quite some time I have had a feeling, but today I finally saw your pictures with him. Your smile, the way that he is draped around you…I have a set of my own pictures with him just like them. I read your posts and your family and friend’s comments. “You deserve such happiness.” “He
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