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Eric the Red Feb 2018
If all you give to love
Is a body

Don’t be surprised
If your Other
Goes in search
Of the missing parts
That you can’t give
Eric the Red Feb 2018
I swear there’s nothing
And I mean nothing better
Than the Beginnings
Of something wonderful

A steak
First sip of wine that cost more than $10
Someone’s words
Thunderstorm
Sunrise
Full Moons
Making eyes with a
Beautiful woman

Relationships
Are by far the best
Beginnings
Clothing becomes optional
&
All you want to do is
Be with them
&
Do anything they want
Eric the Red Feb 2018
She got up in the middle
Of the night
Looked over and saw him
Content
His phone buzzed
She gazed at it
‘I miss how you made my body
‘Feel the other night
‘Can we again soon?’

For a moment she froze
Broken
Hurt
But chose not to say
Anything
To him
Because she had the same
Secret
Across town
That she didn’t want to end
Eric the Red Feb 2018
If you know the mechanism
And you’ve survived all
These years
I
Applaud you

Men have it in small doses
Of rage
Barroom fights
Or when someone harms
One of their children
Understandable
Mechanism

I’ve seen & felt
The mechanism
3 or 4
Times in my existence

Where her eyes turn
Black as night
Like a shark
Ready to devour

Stabbed my food
‘I DONTWANNAPLAYRIGHTNOW!!!!!!!’

Tried running me over with the car
Threw a baseball at me from 3 feet away

Knives
Guns
If they were near
I probably wouldn’t be here

When you have that
Mechanism
You can shut off
Consequence
And the space in front
Of you
Becomes the most
Violent space
On earth
Eric the Red Feb 2018
Wake
Coffee
Make sure she’s asleep
Download apps
Toilet
Swipe left
Swipe right
Pay a bill
Go to work
Email
Make eyes with that new girl
Check apps
Match
‘Nice to meet you...’
Send msg to that one 500 miles away
Lunch
‘I work long hours so I’m just looking for a physical thing right now’
Text Mrs.
‘I love you too...I’ll get wine on way home.’
Check msgs
‘I’d like that...’
Send selfie to new stranger
Keep that long distance one dangling
‘Missing you...’
Txt missus
‘On my way...’
‘Hurry...dinner almost ready.’
‘HAHA...LOVE YOU LOVE’
kiss
Check app
Quick swipe right
Match
‘Nice to meet you...’
Wine
Delete apps
Delete pics
Key turns to front door
She runs over wraps arms around
kiss
‘I’ve missed you today...’
‘You have no idea how much I’ve missed you today.’
Thinks to himself if he put that one number on block or
Do Not Disturb
Eric the Red Feb 2018
Your love was like freezing rain upon my branches...they’ll break soon under the weight of it...never to grow back...take me as I am...put me in your ground...blind me...for I just need to hear your heartbeat...let it sing me to sleep...invade my dreams there
Eric the Red Feb 2018
‘You’re lucky...’
I told her
‘Why am I lucky?’
She asked

‘You’re lucky the stars are far out of reach...because if they weren’t, I’d bring one out of the nightsky
everynight...just for you...’
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