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Calli Kirra Jul 2014
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I'd like to think I'm cold and calculating and unwavering, sometimes I'd wished I was like the people who hurt me, always looking for the next, never understanding or having to retravel the damp, crushed paths of destruction that leaked from the soles of their shoes, never caring to turn and see the thick, salty metal smoke choking it's way through the light. But, I am a lover. A dreamer of only the most sweet, silver realities, realities that are, to most, wildest dreams. I write letters and excerpts, often to people I've never met, often in the position of who I dream to become, often like a madwoman. It terrifies me, how I so often go limp and dazzled by men like gods, on covers, who's voices lull my aching showgirl heart into an almost always fitful sleep, but that I can't get over ever, and I know he'll love me too one day, crying out my name in his virile, fiery tone, to the screeching excitement of electric guitars. Do you let yourself give in to your insanities? Can you claim them for your own, dance with them, let them burst free into your every other area of normalcy? I do, I can, I always have. I am the girl turning the corner, the flashing, fleeing green and red lights in the sky, the faint sound of applause you know is coming from somewhere where incredible things are happening. I've been the hate, and the sick, and the lust, I have hot blood and a heart, and they are pumping, always pumping.
Calli Kirra Feb 2014
Zeros and ones
Zeros
And ones
Vibrate, vibrations
My colossal,
Speck of isles and nations
Half step, half of half step
Never the wall, can't feel it yet
Am I?
Tying... no
Am I tying my own knot?
Not?
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Calli Kirra Oct 2013
18
"Girl, I can't wait to get our apartment. Only a couple more years."
"**** yeah. It'll have purple walls with our paintings on them, and our mattresses will be on the floor."
"Yes! And we'll have our bongs on the living room coffee table, and a stereo system and a velvet couch."
"And let's get little kittens!"
"Hell yeah baby girl, kittens rock."
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
2003, where did you go?
My Scene dolls and All Time Low
Red Jeeps and glitter cheeks
Thirteen and hip hop beats
Tube tops, pop n lock
Don't forget your frosted lipgloss
Butterflies and Blink's First Date
"Forever Yours" on a silver keychain
Belly rings, snorting pills stings
Tiered skirts and ankle bling
TLR, Summerland
South of Nowhere, Degrassi: The Next Gen
Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton
Travis Barker and Ashlee Simpson
Fall Out Boy and Timbaland
Pete Wentz almost ended it
Promiscuous, Grand Theft Autumn
Jeans hung low, and girl you got em
I wanna live there over again
Everything was better then
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Calli Kirra Oct 2013
271
I know that phone number all too well
The burn of metal all to well
Your speedy driving
Knowing something is so very wrong
I know your yelling like a witches spell
So loud and there's a dinging in my head, a bell
October has it out for me
Get your drinks and your music,
I'm hiding under the covers
Calli Kirra Dec 2013
My neck feels tight
But it's just you telling me
It's not over
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
A match was lit
Just to make it hot in here
But the curtains caught
And burst into flames
And the carpet
What a shame
Poured bucket after bucket
But you loved it, you loved it
Kept blowing on it, on it
Now the bed is on fire
And my head is on fire
And you're a ******* liar
And I'm so so tired
What a shame,
This flickering flame
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Calli Kirra Aug 2014
67
It's sixty-seven degrees, I hope you'll love me
75
Calli Kirra Nov 2013
75
I don't want to like this band
This stupid awful band
But it's like they read us like a book
And I can't get enough
9/9
Calli Kirra Apr 2013
9/9
He asked me
If I wanted a tattoo
And if I did
Where
And I said I wanted a crescent moon
To remind me of September 9th
And how I held that Exit sign
Michael broke off for me
And I looked up
And Joey looked up
And I smiled
And said I want that
I want to capture that moon
And that feeling
On my skin
As a part of me on the outside
To reflect that part of me
On the inside
Calli Kirra Jan 2023
I watched you eat chocolate for breakfast in your work pants
Your tired pink turning everything that was green into blue
You will discover infinite things before I do and so I get to live one and a half days extra on top of each one given to me
I feel like an eternal castle bell
I must be so because you explain me like a ringing in your skull and just as liquid gold
So liquid that sometimes our disagreeing sunsets are worth hearing your voice for so long
You describe plastering a wall
I hear that there has been discovered a new section of Earth
Calli Kirra Jun 2014
Instead of a headache or a twist in my lungs
I'm popping plastic caps till the love wears off
Till the hum wears off
Traffic, stop and push
That's how we are
Bang and bang till my fists are sore
So much purple and blue but I still want more
Purple and blue,
All for you
Calli Kirra Dec 2015
I don't believe you when you say you love me,
So I don't believe anything
Calli Kirra Aug 2018
You told me once
That you were a leaf in the wind
I thought how wrong you were
You speak of us,
Like possibly you’re a glint in the corner of my eye
I thought how cruel you were
You’re a firecracker in an ink blue sky
You pop and crack, and blind these eyes
A raging fire in the dead of night
I didn’t stand a chance  
But in the morning light,
Between your hands,
I’d choose to burn every time
You are far too strong, far too sturdy, far too glorious. My love, you are an entire forest.
Calli Kirra Dec 2013
Cold showers like summer
Head hot and heavy
The alley is so pretty
Sweet sticky strawberry air
Bare backs, legs, put her there
This is the real kind of June gloom
When its really winter and you miss her
Calli Kirra Aug 2014
I use a lot of commas because my thoughts never end, they never have a finish point to them they just bleed and bleed into each other, like ******* shooters all sharing needles, **** all my thoughts probably have aids
Calli Kirra Aug 2013
Oh dear, what is going on
Small, big, all around
Curiouser and curiouser
Beware the jabberwocky!
Up and down and side to side
Colors and mirrors and ponies that glide
Bugs that sing and plants that cry
I love it! I love it! What is time?
Creepy but sweet but dark inside
Lewis knew how to play with the mind
*** and drugs and making fun of
Which theory is right
Or is it just a fairy tale
And the answer is none?
Calli Kirra Dec 2015
Hours fly after nine
Mind screams and tries to hide
Fingers hold on for the ride
Heart beats and kills time
Eyes dead set and always up
Toes cross and ask for luck
Wrists bound,
Untie with sound
Head packs up for underground
Calli Kirra Oct 2015
I'm not easily convinced,
Unless I'm the one doing the talkin
I'm not easily obsessed,
Unless it's somethin that's gonna be worth it
And I know how to kiss
But only when I really feel like it
Baby I'm the best
But only for real lovin
Calli Kirra May 2016
I can't breathe anymore
Than I already have with you
I can't find any more
Reasons why,
To stay here and fight with you
You're too far to pull in tight
But close enough for a crushing goodbye
Well god knows I've tried,
I guess this happens with you all the time
Calli Kirra Feb 2014
All I wanna do
All he wanna do
All she wanna do
How much can you do
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
What's going on when the gun goes off?
Pouring rain, what a scene for a beautiful show
A pretty girl's blood must feel so young,
And some song's endings are meant to die to
Kinda like static
Have you ever seen a telephone pole with a million nails in it?
It feels like Atlanta in here
Next time you're in line
Open your eyes, look behind
Everyone on their phones
When did we become such good little clones?
As if I really know
As if he'll ever know
He'll never know
A whole different boy now
Give him a new name, new clothes, new questions, all no's
Time to go
Thanks again for the beautiful show
Calli Kirra Jan 2021
Multiples of flurrying life
Dancing on the country green
My hands warmed of the cup,
And the company of your chest,
I slept by the fire all night
I am all woman and untangled muscles
You stand bare and newly awake at the window
Blinking,
And I cannot tell who is doing the reflecting
The lawn,
Or the aventurine
That through which you see the world
That from which the most subtle gaze
Unfastens me
Calli Kirra Nov 2013
She's just breaking
My
*******
Heart
With this story
The story that should've been mine
And beating turns to glass cracking
And falling
Shattering
Always shattering
Calli Kirra Aug 2016
Step so light down the rainbow bridge,
With the Angel wings you've always had  
You kept me warm beside the bed,
The softest thing I'll never touch again
Now my love, the clouds will be
The sweetest things you've ever seen
Like all the birds, and all the trees
That you gazed upon so peacefully
Pretty baby, eyes that shine
Your heart still beats inside of mine
RIP my love.
Calli Kirra May 2016
Im trying to figure out if I'll ever feel as raw with anyone as I did with him. Even now, I'm so happy, and treated so well, and I'm attracted and immersed and even growing attached, but I've yet to feel the ache. I don't feel moved like the turning tide like how he made me. I'm not turned inside out, but I'm wondering if that's okay, if that's a good thing, if I've just never known peacefully pure love and I'm just used to being torn apart and confused and on fire with inconsistency. Part of me misses that, part of me says that when I feel the rolling drop again is when I will again know love, but I can't trust that as the honest truth.

Maybe real love is not splattered all over the walls. Maybe it is soft orange, glowing and caressing the ceiling, the floors, the window. Maybe it's different with every two individual people, like different colors make their own colors in turn.
I'm just always stuck in the middle, feeling like I know and feeling like I don't. Knowing... do you really know when you know? It's like I have five fragments of heart and they all want something different. There I go again, talking, talking.
Calli Kirra Sep 2022
I am so disoriented and malnourished from you torturing me in this cell
I almost thought I’d see you behind my locked front door,
Sitting and waiting for me on the couch
When you don’t have a key and nobody’s been home all day
Calli Kirra Aug 2018
This rock that I carry in my chest
Pumps adrenaline
And tries to crawl up my throat
I try to let you go
I lay bare in bed and I’m burning up
Each breath quick, hot, and not enough
I’m a racehorse with water in her lungs
Calli Kirra May 2014
Old friend,
You've been the love of my life
So wrong it's right down to the bone,
Home in your quilted eyes
What a line,
I bet you get this all the time
Even then I was yours,
Guess you've always been mine
You said it quick,
And I thought, I know
Never met another realist before
I'm a girl of extremes,
"Baby I know what you mean"
A lover a fighter a runner a writer
A kisser a dreamer who starts all the fires
I start fires
Calli Kirra Sep 2018
“Think about that.”
Why don’t you think about the nights you’ll spend
Wishing you’d chosen different words
Me, I’ll be radiant and walking in the sun
And you’ll feel the weight of the tended soil you torched to ash
Before the roses bloomed
Calli Kirra Nov 2021
It may **** me to be inside any hands not grown from your golden body,
But I choose tigers
I give them a glossy mirror while playing a flute
Or harp strings
They finally rest
Hell,
They purr

Though it does make your eyes roll backward, and your stomach reject an entire day
If only you could see how I crush them
You’d be so proud of this flower
Given in bunches to poison kings
Coming to bloom on your kitchen table
Making your house into a home
Calli Kirra Aug 2013
**** your poetry
The same things, a broken record
And I bet you think you're so smart
So emotional and romantic cause you've been torn apart
So hurt and so sad and nice things make you mad
That's funny
Look how hard I'm laughing
Till I pass out and the room starts dancing
I wanna imagine what you mean
Don't say it
Don't write it
Tell me what you see in the stars when you press your eyes against your pillow
Love ain't real, I'm sorry to say
Better you learn now than some other day
When it's too ******* late
Body shattered like a plate
But you're still so heartbroken
Oh poor you, you miss him so much
Seen so much
Been through things so tough
Shut up
Calli Kirra Nov 2022
Hands swift, taught, carving.
Aurora borealis on my open back
Thought we might name our girl the same
Crashing into the world with your eyes
Flashing green
Loud, humanly
Through our chests and the sky

All of the rivers that led us here
Began clear
We knew our way like our tongues know our teeth
Like losing a soul tears the muscle
Before it leaves
Calli Kirra Oct 2021
You play your space much too fast,
Too lose,
Too unspecific
For a promise-maker
Fresh meat in a foreign house, and the very strangest kind
8 moments of suspension is 7 too many times
To hold our breath together
Hoping the rain caves in the roof
Calli Kirra Nov 2013
So here we are again
In middle of the street
Runnin with BB guns
But you'd never shoot me
My number one summer jam
It's too late now
Calli Kirra Jun 2021
When you have nothing else to say,
And the country is quiet
I’ll take us down to the river
She is heavy and overflowing with debris
Blackened, cracking wood
From every fire set at our parties of starting over
We divide our acres and part
I hear the hiss of your sleeping breath in the rain,
I feel the train in my feet
Like the heat under my cheek from the blood in your heart

Every night I spend awake long enough to see the sun rise
In the pale baby blue I see your eyes
Every morning I catch quick enough to see that first light
I remember how alive I left our first time
Calli Kirra Jan 2014
It's like, going to sleep every night is little naps, and then once you've been exhausted fully by life, you fall asleep for good and that is going to bed
Calli Kirra Feb 2014
Eyeeeee
Kneeeddddd
Yooooooo
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
The worst fear of a poet
Is that the reader will not understand
And I am terrified
Calli Kirra Jul 2014
Since my little years, maybe five
Green, blue, red when I close my eyes
Colored ***** in cage bins
Can't wait till it comes again
Calli Kirra Nov 2014
No good and my wings are ripped,
But there was empty space to begin with
Would you still kiss me with blood on my neck?
Like a video girl, and you're paid for this?
You just walked out on all your friends,
And I'll do you good for that
I'll make you proud for that
Calli Kirra Jul 2013
You looked like such a man
With those fireworks in your hand
And I saw as you laughed
That things like these make you happy
They make your eyes sparkle
I wanted to touch you
And tell you how strong you are
I wanted you to lay me down
Like you're so good at
And I know you love me
I knew as the explosion made us laugh
And we ran so fast up the porch
And I turned around
And your face
Pure joy and freedom
I sat back down in your room
With the stuff in my lap to make us feel good
And the boys I love like brothers
All panting and yelling and laughing
And you looking so pleased
And thought
"I am so in love with you"
Calli Kirra May 2015
You don't want this,
And I'm telling you
Just like it is
An unsteady tower when the wind comes in,
That's what I am
Made of marble and glass and covered in sun
I'm at my best when the nights are long
But by the sea,
Temperamental place to be
I fear overcasts just teasing me
Yes it's the best,
I will admit
Just listen sailor, please
A beach house is perfectly
Troubled as can be
Calli Kirra Dec 2013
You made your bed
I won't sleep in it with you
Of course he says he loves me now
Everyone just calm down
Calli Kirra Apr 2022
To drink you like a garden martini
Full of crushed blackberries
I’d **** the seeds through my teeth and let it burn
Painter,
Please strip and re-color my tongue
Calli Kirra May 2022
Silver metal hummingbird  
Clack, clack, clacks against glass
While the car jostles and I **** myself over needing you
Sometimes the ring is a hum when you are there to sing the harmony,
At other times it is a shotgun blast in an abandoned war tunnel
I am most eloquent and hollow when it’s your nails at my throat
Though I can’t speak,
I sing
Calli Kirra Dec 2013
Hard to dress up
And put on a show
When  my supporting actor is in the third row
And tonight when he sees me
He'll give me a wink
And I'll smile so sweet
N' get another drink
Calli Kirra Jan 2014
I knew, I knew he would, I knew and I did nothing, I did everything
Calli Kirra Jul 2014
Green eyed girl talkin chill on the radio
Voice like silk, red wine and indigo
Quick fox boy, callin in, but no requests tonight
He's so caught up, so in love, mesmerized by her sweet noise
Playin tricks,
"How bout this? How can I take you out sometime?"
"I'll tell you what, a dozen roses, alive and black, on my desk by sunrise."
Gorgeous radio girl, could make any man cry
A tall dark dreamer sleepin in his backseat tonight
She'd never guess, him, an artist
But come morning time,
Twelve black roses on her desk
"For those green eyes."
For my mother and father, the greatest love story I'll ever know.
Calli Kirra Jun 2022
I regret you fully and to the very soul
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