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TreadingWater Dec 2015
Honesty; A Funny Thing
everyone says it's what they want
but what they need is a reflection
of their own thoughts

i have been honest
i say what i feel \ feel what i say
keep giving chunks of this heart away
pieces of me strung all over the place

and the poet and the writer
who've camped in my chest
the aristist i married
wrecking ***** & trainwrecks

all one-in-the-same
they each dug inside
...some with spoons//
...some with knives
TreadingWater Dec 2015
And your key caddy is. Still. hanging.
...The one with \mir\rors\
So you could check-your-lipstick...
upon...leaving...
I wonder how it rated during
your/final/exit
...I still haven't bother_ed
to take the. ******. thing. down
Xy
TreadingWater Dec 2015
they say to-get-over-you
...just get under some\one new
&I;'vebeentrying
MindyKatherineMelissa
Jamie, too/to/two
we've had a time at it.
I've been ~skimming~ the motions
trying to leave. you. behind;
been gul>p>ing the whiskey
keep °pouring the °○wine○°
none-of-it-is-helping
...but neither is sleep''ing.
if only you held the mem\or\y
that the 《melt 》we felt kissing
was worth
...K. e. E. P. ing.
TreadingWater Dec 2015
Zs
wide...awake
//while
my. heart. rests
far away
in-the-palms-of-a-girl who
has/no/use
yet it is s\tub\bor\n
as it slum
bers *there
nonetheless
it has {so rarely} served-me-well
at knowing
what. was. best.
TreadingWater Dec 2015
If only...
you were a.  p
                            o
                            e­
                            m

I could e.  r.  a. s. e.

[                 ]
[                 ]

each line...

...I could

ecapskc a b

every.  ...   l e t t e r

1.
at.
a.
time.

If only...you were

A ~ s°     n°
            O.      G.~~~

I could hit

               S }>k}>i}>p}>

I could p.r.e.s.s.

_mute

...l o v e...

comes¡so¡quickly¡

《yet》

..... FORGET///ing

takes

so  -  d/a/m/n/e/d/

loooooooooooooooonnnnnnnngggggggg
TreadingWater Dec 2015
I drink from the b°ot°tle°
,...these days
Let's just cut-to-the-chase
what I thought mattered
was your wasted space
But no matter//no worry
I'm glad. for. this. ache.
at least I have felt it
I don't. have. any. shame.
I refuse to feel sorry (or any regret)
you own so much beauty
I'm just another some//body who
....F
        E
             L
                  L
... for it
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