coyote

coyote Feb 2015

"you win some,
you lose some"
says the boy
who's never lost
one ******* thing
in his ******* life.

bad boys give bad advice

#love #depression #loss

coyote Feb 2015

bird on the branch:
i find myself
fascinated by
the speed in which
you crane your neck;
quick flashes of
movement,
an attempt
to see this quick life
from all directions.

#life #idkisawabird

coyote Jan 2015

Fig. 8

When you're drunk
you talk in figure
eight’s: the same
figure eight’s
we made beneath
strobe lights
when we were
young.

I spent New Year's Eve
collecting patches
of carpet burn
like they were badges
of your affection.
My mouth read the words
along the seam
of your inner thigh:
love hurts—
and I believed
them.

Not for the first time,
I got caught in one
of your smoke rings:
listening to you
and everyone
talk
[about me]
without talking
[about me].

Kiss me
with slander
still stuck
in your teeth.

An old one originally posted on Mibba.

#love #pain #youth

coyote Jan 2015

shipwreck potential

we like to
kid about
ruining
each other:

because
we know
the potential
is there.

i am not
ready for
you to
wreck me:

but the
potential
is there.

#love #requited #pre-love

Jan 2015

Ellie Taps

Accepting

Don't think of it as giving up,
but accepting.
Accepting the truth.
Accepting reality and, letting go of hope and fantasy.

Jan 2015

Brittle Bird

Dear 2015,

I'm so scared.

I'm so scared of what you will mean to me at 4:00 in the morning,
when I get to thinking most about my life
and that much thinking
can't possibly be alright.

I'm scared that maybe you are just a mirror of 2014,
an illusion made for laughing at all of us
who think maybe we can do better this time.
This time we'll change for sure.
This is it.

And 2015, dear friend,
I'm scared that maybe this time I won't make it
to the hopeful beginning of 2016
When I can say again with conviction
that this is the year we'll be great.

Yes, we will be legendary.

This is it.

#life #hope #scared #beginnings #endings #aspirations #newyear #legendary #2015 #thisisit

Jan 2015

EJ Aghassi

chills

in the morning
when i told you
that i want you
and needed you

i'm not sure what i meant by that

something
takes over
in the wake of
past lovers

i just want you here

meanings
and feelings
sure signs
and readings

lead my mind along the way

arms wide
heart closed off
your crooked smile
my smoker's cough

we are sure set to tragedy

i'll press on
and fret not
with blind eye
& muted thought

it's what soothes the mind, at times

there's no shame
in wanting
what's so pure
and haunting

flooding now the world around

in rose tinted
perfumed
oceans of the
blood spewed

from the people you became

when you got in your own way