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  Jul 2017 Elizabeth Squires
bluevelvet
I visited a grave today
I sat in the grass for a quick stay
My mind forms the words
I hoped you'd say

I imagined you were still there
In the way we were
And your thumb still managed to care

You'd tell me it'll be okay,
Not everything will always stay,
Tomorrow is a new day
So don't give up by losing your way

So on the way home
There was a rainbow in white foam
From a storm long gone
And I have never felt more alone
The truth of reality
  Jul 2017 Elizabeth Squires
Semihten5
Love is experienced with the speed of light
like blink
amazing how much there is
life -like
the greatest complexity
solves simple

fits in a book of centuries
dream life
i had taken the morning off from work
to get a botox injection
afterwards i went to starbucks
and bought a venti carmel something

to drink on my walk to work
somewhere inbetween starbucks
and work i noticed a man in a wheelchair
he was stuck

il·leg·i·bly
he was asking for help
illegibly

i had to put my coffee on the ground
to get his wheelchair up and moving again
the wheels ran over my foot
and the coffee got knocked over
and spilled on the ground
he didn't say thank you,
but he was in a wheelchair
and couldn't speak coherently

it hurt
and my toenails
were black for the entire summer

a few months later
i got a job at starbucks corporate
but quit with no notice after six months
because the manager
couldn't stop yelling about white privledge, me, and howard shultz

and i didn't want to turn into her.

her initials were kkk.
  Jun 2017 Elizabeth Squires
Zero Nine
To answer your question from earlier with a newfound clarity, we're over. I've been ready to let go, but unable to budge an answer from the woman of such few words. Well, tonight she dropped me, and it's official. She punched my sheet and gave it back for the last time, passing me back into the world without a hurtful word like I'd been her best employee.

What's it going to be like now, as the human slingshot? All the emotions long left to the side return to the hole the skeleton of our dull relationship dug from the dense pulp of my longing body. I'll be a bullet, the smallest pebble, toward a target picked at random.

That's what's called a faulty firing pattern. For all I've tried, the SSRI won't fix my inability to grasp the practice of foresight, so for once I'll have to really think about putting my foot in the door. A road like that leads to nothing but the worst I have to offer, and the worst the world finds it can give in return.

I want to love, but I don't want to date. What is dating? I feel too old, and if you tell me I'm not old by any standard, then I feel like I missed something. I want to love, but I want to do. As I do, I want to meet. And if I never, then that's fine. But I'd rather meet and make the silent hard sell in a moment of the truest definition of fiery, urgent complacency, than pick through peers and lovers like I'm at a thrift store bin.

What I want, is to do what I want, and do what I know I shouldn't do, while sometimes pretending it's this great disaster that I report in writing, type into boxes on screens that lead directly to the people most likely to benefit from hearing about repeated and semi-purposeful crash and burns.

My perpetual hope is that I'll catch lust's throbbing hand so well wrapped around my throat that I'll simply die. That I'll choke and choke until you, whoever you are, break the bones away and choke my lungs with blood. I hope for the spastic gasps that you'll confuse for last breaths, when I'm actually having an ******.
Not that I feel specifically directed.
  Jun 2017 Elizabeth Squires
Graff1980
Being creatures of
pattern recognition
and love
we conceive of
a universe that feels
just as much
as we do,

but the universe
has never given
any sign
of an emerging or actively
conscious mind.

Though, if it did
do you really think
it would give a ****
for human beings
when it is such
an immense thing?
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