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Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

inquiry:

Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

EJ Aghassi

inquiry:

girls go
for the whole

"ruin your life"
type,

right?

Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

modern gentleman

Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

EJ Aghassi

modern gentleman

I'm the type of guy

who pees sitting down
when I'm a guest of
somebody's house

because

i may be a
drunkard but
it's not hard
to care about decency

I don't want to ***
all over the seat,
it happens all the time
when I'm this far gone

so I shamelessly
get comfortable
and relief soon
enough sweeps

also:
I automatically leave
the seat down, you see

that makes me
some kind
of a
gentleman, right?

Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

two fingers

Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

EJ Aghassi

*******

how painful it is to see

how painfully
hard you
have
to try

to "mean" something
to "feel"

it's easy to be
broken
when you know everyone
is going to try to fix you

a false idol
with mindless followers

you let them reach
out to you
just to slap
their hands away

you're no poet
no

but
you're quite the *******

Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

Lost

Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

Dansy Thomas

Lost

I am not a graceful person.
I am not a Sunday morning, or a Friday sunset.
I am a Tuesday, 2am., gunshots muffled by a few city blocks,
I am a broken window during February.
My bones crack on a nightly basis.
I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness.
I sometimes don't believe I belong around people,
that I belong to all the leap days that didn't happen.
The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm.
You don't see the lighting, but you hear the echoes.

Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

falling in like

Feb 2014 Dane Perczak

EJ Aghassi

falling in like

infatuation is such a
filthy thing, isn't it?

carpet ripped from underneath,
you get the wind knocked
out of you as your back hits the hard ground

staring blankly at the stars
that don't care enough to twinkle,
even the moon wouldn't pay you
a second glance

not even out of pity

self mutilation is
the realization

that I like you

transmuting gold back
into useless reagents

I like you

graduating from budding
to full-blown alcoholic

because I like you

you make a blue sky
turn gray

I like you

the sun won't ever
shine the same

it knows I like you

clouded clime
perpetual rain

chemical imbalance
impoverished brain

near insane
digging a grave

you
ruin
my day
because

I like you