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 Mar 2013 Andrew McElroy
August
I haven't kissed anyone in so long.
I might just evaporate from the sheer
heat

Standing on tiptoes, touching noses
Palms pressing hard against palms as they
meet

I'm falling into tiny fragmented pieces
And you are picking at the edges, playing with the
seam

And then you vanish into thin air
My hands empty, once full of this
dream

I crumple like paper to the floor
Little tree branch fingers twisted into
knots

Tears so blue they flood the room
I'm washed away, waves reminding me of what I
*forgot
© Amara Pendergraft 2013
 Mar 2013 Andrew McElroy
Marigold
I'd been trying to do something with my life,
Any ******* thing
But i've always been too easily distracted,
especially with the promise of tangible experiences,
Like the seeing of sounds and the tasting of love.
He said just come round, what's it matter anyway?
And as I could give no answer to the meaning of life,
Here i stand again.

Nineteen it is now,
Nineteen small white pills,
And they won't do much if i swallow them,
I've tried that one before.
But if i didn't know better i may well try again.
Prehaps at the end of the year,
when it will be twenty glistening childs teeth,
I could try again,
Double the dose,
Triple the dose.
Slot them into a double scoop ice cream,
Eat up all my desert,
Then allow my soul to desert my body,
Once more, on a one way flight.

I'll postpone the inevitable for now,
Its what we're all busy doing anyhow.
But i've seen more in my short life
than hollow headed women baring their *******
for just one more drink that might help forget their boredom,
And sporting young men, desperate for attention in any form it may come,
Some form of reassurance,
We're glad you're alive son, we sure are.

He sat there in an oversized jersey,
and i wished he'd let me crawl up inside it,
To sit there in his lap and cry myself to sleep,
No, No! I've had quite enough of such foolish business.
It's in the past.
But isn't it all?
The past is never really gone,
I don't trust it for a minute.
I don't trust much.
 Mar 2013 Andrew McElroy
August
In so doing exposes ribs, vulnerable to fracture, leaky marrow drains, what remains?

*Not the flesh, no not the flesh, only the towering white towers that will eventually turn to dust and be cycled through a cylinder smooth unisex creature that changes everything into dirt. Later on providing the food for the hand which will eventually get bitten.
 Mar 2013 Andrew McElroy
Tea
I can’t believe I’m here
You don’t see me
Not like I see you
Warmth and pout lips

You see skinny, cleaver me
You see friendly
Let’s be friends

I see you ******* in my head
Stupid me.
Lets pretend
You see me inside my beauty
And realize I’m here
Climb inside
Were we collide
In crazy Teias head
 Mar 2013 Andrew McElroy
Tea
Wild Fire Dancing

Wild fire dancing in electric red and orange
Softly making noise
Warmth that feels across a face
All consuming charm filling in my space
Exploding out so far
Reaching out my arms
Singing through the silence
Refuse to be beat
Holding down the violence
Past is passing, green grass is lasting
Hold my breath, fasting
Chasing after
Happy ever after
With happy in my hands
That’s my plan
I’m wild fire dancing
 Mar 2013 Andrew McElroy
bambi
If time allowed
I would return to you.

You and I are far too young,
to pray this world will not turn round.

You and I are far too young,
to pray our lives succumb.

Yet we lie awake at night
and waste away
by day.
This is unfinished--I just needed to articulate a thought.
 Mar 2013 Andrew McElroy
bambi
I was at home in the crooks of your arm,
tall above the root.

Our sweet-bark skin, new spring at hand,
trepidation rendered mute.

The earth succumbed to restless sleep
as I ebbed between your palms.

The moss and shroom a witness
to the wilting of our psalm.


But the story the crow told me,

is the only one he knows:

like the morning sun you come,
and like the wind go.
Thank you Grateful Dead.
I need to feel somebody’s touch again
I need to hear them whisper my name.
A kiss that’s more than a kiss
I’d like to be in such infatuation that it’s hardly sane.
I need someone to adore my body, embrace my skin
Undress me, ever-so-graceful; I need to sin
I want to press my bare chest against another human being
So hard, close, that we’re able to feel the others heart beating.
I’d like to be laid down, so delicate, like a doll
To be kissed, bitten, pleasured, so intense, my skin will crawl
My arms are aching to grasp another
My legs need something new to feel
Just please, for one night, can I be your faux lover?
Because it’s your heart, that I long to steal.
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