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Anna Jun 2013
I like peoples hands,
And the things they might do
When they are large
And awkward,
With graceful, long fingers.
Callused, but not too horribly scarred
From years of doing
Something,
Anything really-
As long as it said something about
Their soul
Or state of mind.
Anna Jul 2013
Ghosts fall at the altar
For you on loan,
Begging to be taken home
stop her! stop her!
Leave our throne.
Ghosts don't help
When you're
Alone.
Anna Aug 2013
Another headache
Splits my brain
And scatters the voices
Thatre my only friends.
Anna Jun 2013
My moms boyfriend
Clearly doesn't like gays.
So...
I'm now accepting applications
For my next girlfriend.
Anna Jun 2013
When you open
Your mouth
And work your jaw with yellowed teeth
You **** me off.
Anna Dec 2013
And it suits.
That girl is light, and vibrant hints
Of aqua-blues.
Anna Aug 2013
”What's your problem?”
”You resist my charms.”
I laugh to myself,
Smile over a glowing screen.
There's no resisting that boys
Eyes
And smooth laugh
Or even the badly placed lip ring,
Like mine.

”I try.”
Anna Jun 2013
I don't like when he has ****** hair,
It irritates
My sensitive skin
When
Our lips are sealed together
Like passionate secrets in the dark.
Anna Jun 2013
When I was little my uncle was
Shot
And died on the scene.
A cop did it.
My uncle was unarmed.
Murdered
Because of his skin tone.
Anna Jun 2013
I used to laugh
When my friend made fun
Of my wide almond eyes
And sweet soft lips
My ears, that stuck out just a bit too
Much.
He called me an elf girl,
And chased me like a sprite
In the forest.
Anna Jun 2013
There's an option to get there
On nearly every website.
Represented by pixels and a bit of colour
Completely unsubstantial.
But for me, it's not so generic.
Not made so just because of definition.
Anna Jun 2013
Here, have a cookie
Or really anything
Sweet.
To make up for my lack
Of niceties.
Anna Aug 2013
Sadness is a sickness
Turning lips
chapped
And blue.
Anna Aug 2013
There is a bird
Trapped firmly in its cage
Torturing me
Beating its wings
Until I cannot sleep
Anna May 2013
go home.
silence
Go. *******. Home.*
Fire licks its way into my aching bones-
bones that feel years before my time
and feet below the floor.
the door slams. I am in a stupor. A truck pulls out
Ice splinters in my veins-
begs my body- pleads-
no more centuries to endure.*
Blistering skin screams,
cracks,
bleeds.
and now, crawling on the kitchen floor,
gasping through shrunken lungs.
Laughing,
Freezing,
Drenched.
Needless to say, I am now enjoying a stay in the hospital.
Anna Jun 2013
It slid a finger down my neck
Growled
Walked through a book case.
I gave them it
On accident.
Anna Jun 2013
There was a woman
That I used to sing songs to
Until her goosebumps were evident.
I'd give her calm, smooth looks
That made her question her sexuality.
Sometimes, I could even tempt her into a kiss
Or ten.
But mostly, I just made out with the guy she loved.
You can bet I left that *****
******* confused.
Anna Jun 2013
Oh, man
I'm in mania.
Beautiful, wide eyed mania.
It tastes like rose petals, and never needing food or sleep-
Just always itching to do something-
Anything really.
Anna Oct 2013
If I live to be young
I will sail,
With my tongue,
Away from whiskey and
You
To the sea's deepest blues.
Anna Jun 2013
Tonight I get to be angry
And hurt
My chest is a raw wound
And my lungs dont work.
Anna Jun 2013
I used to dream of ******,
Of slicing people
And bludgeoning them
With an axe.
Scarlet drops and puddles
Dripping from
A clouded vacant head.
Anna Jun 2013
I miss the feel of having
Smooth wrists,
Sides,
Thighs,
And shoulders.
Every bit of me
Is now an open wound to
Match my mind-
And everyone can see it.
Every bump on the way from
Grace,
Every welt that
Scars the temple,
Every time I made myself
More tainted
Through scarlet evenings
Just to sleep.
Anna Jul 2013
Every syllable
That leaves my mouth
Is so
*******
Stupid.
Every one
Is another knot
Above my doorway
Another rope
Around my throat.
just stop!
I need to
Shut the **** up.
Anna Aug 2013
It hurts to think
About how much I make you feel
Like you're standing too close to lightning.
How much you can't help
But ******* want me and
My whiskey flavored lips,
And how close you let me get
When I know you're just another meaningless
Kiss.
Anna Jul 2013
I don't believe in breath
Because it seems the world lacks interest
In anything but ***
And how to breed
And to infest.
Anna Jul 2013
Because
It's easier
To believe in
A good ****
Than
True love.
Anna Jun 2013
Sweet-ice wrote me
one more poem
To send soft chills back up my spine.
Her sincerity is
the sweetest breeze
That suffocates me every time.
She makes my mind awake-
That turbulent
Sweet-ice girl.
Anna Jun 2013
They put a mirror in my bedroom.
I cried
Because it is antique
And my anxiety is horrible.
It's surface makes my veins itch.
It's wretched
And I'm paranoid.
Anna Jun 2013
We'd talk about kisses, falling like
Honeyed rain
You called me a shooting star
And rested your every wish on my quick descent.
Anna Jul 2013
Could I not breathe
If I were a theif
That sat upon edges
Beyond reprieve
And long lost sanity?
Anna Jun 2013
When I find beauty,
I can't help but be the beast.
To sink teeth into skin,
Bruise, claw,
But mostly love.
Until we're both
Animals
Feeding on
Late night *****
And early morning *****.
Anna Jun 2013
She wrote me poetry, that girl with sweet-ice eyes.
We'd trade them at the end of every day
In the hospital.
I promised to be an antidote
As long as she could prevent me
From seeping into her veins.
But we all are weak,
And I spread through her with surprising toxicity.
She only saw my sickness-
But I had already created a new one
In her.
Anna Jun 2013
I like to know names
Because I'm old south
Superstitious
And people are my demons.
Anna Jul 2013
I'm drawing ships
And skeletons
On the first blank page
While I drink to
Anything that suits a sip-
Which is everything at this stage.
Anna Feb 2014
We watched the sun rise
painting rainbow streets
in the color of surprise
Anna Jun 2013
Im just done.
You all said you
Try so ******* hard
To ”make me happy”
*******.
None of you do anything
But pursue your own flesh.
I shouldn't believe in anyone.
Anna Jun 2013
Didn't it hurt?
I couldn't tell if he was concerned with the look of the steel in my face
Or the silver of my arms.
Either way, I gave the same answer.
I laughed
and blinked once
No, you did.
Anna Mar 2015
We have matching marks
Where paint stains pretty faces
Bright eyed crazy folk
Expelling laughs and chasing stiff laces
We fill poison kitchens with songs
And beg the earth to sing along
Love abandoned us at birth,
But we seem to get along.
Anna Jun 2013
I told her about the
Weeks I spent purging
And restricting.
She looked at me like a was an idiot,
” You looked good then”.
Oh.
Anna Jul 2013
I went to therapy
Drunk as ****
and thanked God for
All his blessings.
All my scars sitting softly on my wrists,
The silver still kissing my paled hips,
The welts on my legs,
The blistered words that
spin circles on my lips.
I just left confused.
If God's still out there-
he let me be used.
I dont know how I feel,
but alone in death or not-
someone let me be
So ******* abused.
Anna Jun 2013
She begs me
Not to slice feeling from my heart
Or stitch the pieces of my skin.
I laughed,
Because as beautiful as she is
She doesn't understand
The difference in itches.
Anna Jun 2013
You need to go outside.
Why?
I looked at my mother, just starting to show age.
I'm a dark shadow of her,
With paled olive skin.
I don't know how to deal with you*
She's breaking because of me.
I don't know how to deal with me, either.
Anna Jun 2013
You are the
Breath that
Refuses to fill my lazy lungs.
Anna Jun 2013
I keep dreaming about sweet-ice
And her being in firmly
Pressed, clean as a whistle
Clothing.
Her insulin dispenser
Gone,
Like how logic goes
When we're together.
Beautiful,
As always.
And for some reason
I think about
The scars
And soft skin
That rests so sweetly
On those lovely bones.
Anna Jun 2013
He sent me
'seductive'
Pictures
Of a hip bone
*******
And tongue.
This boy might actually
Be cute.
Anna Jun 2013
I cut my hair.
I was sick of myself,
Burning in my own flesh.
I only left the back long.
For rough nights with *****,
Tequila,
Beer,
And him.
I cut my wrists.
Still sick of myself.
Still burning.
But this time,
I left him nothing,
But rough nights with beer,
Tequila,
And bar *****.
Anna Jun 2013
Because the moon makes my skin glow
And my high cheek bones cast a nice shadow
On the rest of my face.
Your eyes glow, too. But brightly-
Not as pale as night.
The air smells of ice and mystery
And tastes of pure silver.
And your skin is like
The touch of grace from a god.
Scars are hidden,
Smiles are not.
And my other senses are allowed to run wild.
Anna Jul 2013
String me up
I'll be your little
Marionette
Dancing in my last act
Of fleeting breath and
Convulsions.
Anna Jun 2013
I miss the
Wisconsin sunrise.
The taste of crimson skies
In the moment just between
Drunk nights
And mornings.
Anna Jul 2013
Spin me stories
like leaves
that I can kiss and pull off
of trees
that flourish
or are withering
because both fruits have
so much value
to me.
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