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Morgan Oct 2014
the scariest thought in the world is the possibility that I will never meet an other person who makes me feel as much as you did & I'll walk around forever with this hungry pit in my soul
Morgan Oct 2014
i used to think that maybe if i just
swallowed enough of these pills
i could fill my veins with the
yellow pigment they held
so that when my skin opened up
i'd bleed the color of plastic toy trucks
and the sun on winter mornings
instead of bit lips and
tired, teary eyes
but the red never truly faded
until i stopped trying to change it
Morgan Oct 2014
im watching the moon fade in
and out of dark blue
clouds just after
midnight on a wednesday
and im holding onto
the filter of this
menthol like it's
your hips,
close enough
to burn my fingertips
and hard enough to
bruise my knuckles
cause you called me 3 times
this week while i was sleeping
and now you won't answer
my texts
the grass is cold
in october
but id rather feel
the shocking chill on my thighs
than not feel anything at all
i guess it's getting bad again
because i can't stay inside
for more than twenty minutes
without feeling like im losing my
******* mind
i think i just need the sky
to feel small
cause lately im always
taking up someone else's space
and **** im asking for it
with the way
i keep replaying voicemails
of you screaming
at me from sixty three miles north
just to drown out his patient voice
cause id rather hear the chaotic
pain shaking through your lips,
so many miles out of my reach
than his carefully composed
monologue of peace and sanity
lying next to me in bed
and that scares me
that really scares me
*i wish you'd pick up your phone
i think there's something wrong
Morgan Oct 2014
I can hang my research paper
about mini gardening on my
refrigerator and hope that you
read it as you're
grabbing yourself a beer
and notice how thoughtful I am

and I can leave my type writer
next to my paint brushes, where
the tv used to sit in my living room
and hope that you will sit
on my couch and wonder
if I write about you
or if I paint pictures
of how flowers look
right after it rains

and I could hang posters of
Joe Strummer
& Charles Darwin
all over my bedroom walls
so that when
you climb into my bed you
think I'm interesting and smart

and I can compose 500 word texts
about how green your eyes are
then never send them

but that's more work than
I have the energy for this year
so I just won't bother loving you
Morgan Oct 2014
she laughs
so carelessly
with purple lips,
purple teeth
& a purple tongue
after drinking four glasses
of a cheap merlot
and
her eyes look
so wide and vibrant
right before she starts to tear
because she poked herself
with eyeliner,
watching her cat roll over
and then she's cursing
at the GPS on the way to
new york,
and my ribs are aching
cause she just told a machine
that she named robo-*****
to "take a ******* xanax"
after missing six left turns
in a row
and she has track marks
all down her arms
but we're older now
and i've got tons of
those plastic hospital
bracelets in a box in
my closet
but we're better now
so please forgive me
for believing the whole
entire world
is ******* poetry
Morgan Oct 2014
I lust for the boring consistency of brewing coffee at 7 AM on a Monday
I crave 2 hour commutes home on rainy Friday evenings
And simple Sundays of shameless indulgence
And football
I don't even like football
But I want to watch it all Sunday long
I want the life I swore away with tattoos and one bedroom apartments for the past two years
I want a life so painfully secure my obituary states "boredom" as my primary cause of death
((Because I am so ******* sick of feeling homesick in my own home
and I am so ******* sick of working holidays
at a job I don't believe in
and I am so ******* sick of boys who belong
in gutters and heartless girls with heart tattoos
Get me out of here))
Morgan Sep 2014
Even as my last professor on a Friday says, "have a good weekend" & I am sharply reminded that I will work doubles all weekend long to pay rent on a life that I don't want,
I love you
And when my friends from high school call my dad for legal advice, making it painfully obvious that they never got better,
I still love you
And later in the night when I am drinking myself to sleep & wondering indefinitely if I too, never got better,
I ******* love you
And when I am driving to North Philly at three in the morning because my sister is breaking and I don't want her to break alone,
Well, I love you then, too
And when I pull over on 6-11, the next morning, with my head in my hands and scream "I ******* hate everyone", I just want you to know that you're the only one who makes a liar out of me
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