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collin Oct 2021
“i never meant to hurt you”
her words like a lit cigarette on my wrist
smiling into this crochet mask i knit

“it’s been far too long
since your knuckles bled”
she said with her actions instead
collin Oct 2021
i will ice these bones
while you feel at home
collin Oct 2021
even darkness is asleep beyond my window
everyone but me, **** of the joke
i felt warmth once
and maybe this will feel like that
every word in every poem
inside my mind is growing, swollen
my knuckles glowing white in anticipation
of the credits rolling
collin Oct 2021
the frames sit uneven
on my face
on the wall
on the memories
fist fighting to feel nothing
everything is wrong
from every angle
collin Oct 2021
another night. i don’t even want to write anymore. i will wake up to another day. everything is the same. i still wear the blood stained knife on my waist. waiting for me to call his name again. attached to my belt like everything else
collin Oct 2021
there is this strange,
soft buzz in my vision
static words waft across
the canvas of my consciousness
devoid of connection
roots stem into branches that die
any lie i’ve told might as well be truth
this disconnection starts beneath my tooth
i try to relate through a slate of grey
but every shade is skewed by rain
i have not had a true friend since i was
maybe…
eight
collin Oct 2021
a steely-eyed stranger stole
the steamy headed anger
how can i be mad at frozen web browsers
when my minds full of aroused encounters
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