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Kim Elco Jul 2017
Called my feelings fetish
If wanting to be myself
Is that, I'm *****.
  Jul 2017 Kim Elco
Elliott
I was so close to just saying it,
yet
you decided
to make it
sound horrible.
Kim Elco Jul 2017
Gripping tighter on the sheets--
Feeling weft and weave of cotton thread
Making rough what was once neat--
Feeling left abreast at once upon my bed

As we do when free of clothes--
Were it winter's bite or summer simper
Wind drifting 'pon our **** repose--
As we taste each other's quiet whimpers.
Kim Elco Jul 2017
Thrown to the wind, each of me a thousandth of a dream.

A wish

B
L
  O
   W
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On the B            E
               R E  A Z
                     E

My petals reach the four corners
Over waters, rocks, and metals
Concrete, humans, and their houses
Till each one may settle
On expectant brows.
  Jul 2017 Kim Elco
Rachel Hickey
Dig your nails into my skin and pull apart my flesh
Pick me into pieces and shred my every breath
Beat my blood like morning eggs and take your rightful pound
Spin my head and shake my legs but I won't make a sound
Kim Elco Jul 2017
First time that I said it I had tears in my eyes.
Dread crushing my gut like grapes in summertime.
Took it back with regret, maybe some other time.
You can give me your heart with abandon.
Yet I must smother mine.
Hard to feel loved when you cannot be yourself.
Kim Elco Jul 2017
GET A ROOM!

Room to say, or conversation space
Filled with empty lies and careless whispers
Sax plays on with hairless jail-birds
Room to finish speaking, share this awkward tension with me.

Room to balk at fake suspense, then?
Room to crave an honest conversation
Room to leave, no hesitation?
Room to bleed upon this counter top
My head is spinning, make it stop.

Take me to my room, my bed, and aloe vera.
Got seven similar burns, let's say a brand
Shot eleven pillars of sand out from my hands.
The cops are calling, want to hear my demands
I just want space, some time, some room.
Room
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