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 Jan 2020 Anonymistress
Me
The DJ
 Jan 2020 Anonymistress
Me
Take off your clothes along with
your false believes, bank account, infiltrated systems
cough up your wounds and heal them
unwind
leave city, color, job, house and religion
far behind
just for a bit

and look: what do you see?

From here you can
climb from the ashes like a
free bird in the morning sun

Come up with your
completely own cute tale, my Dear
and spin it

You are the world;
move in it
 Jan 2020 Anonymistress
Empire
How do you live
When the only thing
You feel like doing
Is dying
 Jan 2020 Anonymistress
Empire
Fade
 Jan 2020 Anonymistress
Empire
Let me fade away
Let my bones turn to dust
Let my spirit flee this place
Let me be free
Just let me be okay
I was sure.
That I knew who you were.

And then I took a cloth,
Cleaned my glasses and squinted,
I didn’t recognize you at all.
 Jan 2020 Anonymistress
E B
drowning
 Jan 2020 Anonymistress
E B
it's hard to fathom words sometimes
when you're swallowed out to sea
and you can only focus on breathing

it's hard to be comfortable
when the life vest disappears,
when the open ocean is in front of you,
when you're at your wits end

it's hard to see the shore
sometimes it seems so far away
i'm too afraid to swim
i'm too afraid to drown
The greatest silence
Is the loudest soul
moon imagery
never grows old

but the older
I grow

the crazy love affair
I once had
with ten-dollar words

starts to wane

images are now
only digestible
in bite-sized
green cheese flavored
morsels

I've been at this
so long

that much of what
gets done is under
weak and pale light

and by fingertip
feel

and finally

most people
want you to speak to them
directly about sadness

rather than
take them down
a moonless
wet and lonely street

Whit Howland © 2020
Mental sludge
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