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Ellen Bee Sep 2013
Smoke breaks in January
chill your cigarette to the bone.
  Mailboxes look like people
  and the people are just strangers
  with something to say.
Ellen Bee Sep 2013
I used to want to be beautiful.
I became beautiful on the inside.
I wanted to be loved.
It made me loving.
I know I'm weak.
I'm stronger than you think.
I feel what I feel completely.
I'm giving if you take it.
I think too much.
I don't talk about it enough.
I'm mostly a good girl.
Unless you make it hard to be.
No one ever broke my heart that didn't deserve to.
I'm a good friend.
I can make you want more.
I can make you need less.
"God knows I don't want to be an angel."
Ellen Bee Sep 2013
He only imbibes because of his dipsomania.
She only practices onanism because she's afraid he'll impregnate her.
He despises her monomania.
She's too affable, almost to the point of being obsequious.
He's too acrimonious and muzzy.
She knows she's a bit of a coquette.
He thinks he's a cuckold.
She used to be flighty until she fell into this convoluted dystopia.
He used to find it scintillating to get sozzled.
She just wants a lark once in a while.
His iniquity makes him want her to be lascivious.
Her every fatuity leads to a cabal.
He's too opaque and insipid.
She has to iterate and reiterate everything she says.
He feels his infatuation is unrequited.
She finds this unproblematic.
He doesn't imbue her with anything anymore.
She thinks he's unpitying of that.
He'll malinger tomorrow.
She'll wonder if it's all adventitious or kismet.
She can't handle his odium.
He can't stand her ten dollar words.
Ellen Bee Sep 2013
And that's the way it is
Before you even know it's too late
Counting your blessings seems vain
Doesn't it?
Even the bad die young
Forget everything I ever said
******* it
Half-empty glasses don't tip over
I can't prove that to you
Just to make you happy
Keep telling me I'm wrong
Lust is just safer than love
Make me want you only once
Next, forget my name
Only the lonely
Pretend to be fine
Questions only lead to things you don't want to hear
Rational people keep it all to themselves
Show me who I really am
Then trade me in for something new
Unwind yourself and
Very carefully
Wrap me in what bound you
X marks the spot
You'll use invisible ink and
Zone in on your target

— The End —