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 Sep 2013 Emma E Jones
Arabella
I have found
that the most heartbreaking thing
is an unknown
last kiss.

chapped lips
locked up,
will no longer be the story tellers
carrying me to sleep
on drunk nights.

no more twig arms
keeping me close.

nor a simple smile,
to be greeted with.

as it did a year ago,
another slit,
with each thought of you.

I hate myself
for missing you.
 Sep 2013 Emma E Jones
Arabella
Just kids,
i'm missing the taste of blood
in my mouth.

Skinny arms
draped over my shoulders
followed by loneliness.

Now,
with an unrecognized face,
I walk these halls with regret.
Knowing,
that forgetting
is not an option.

It's a shame,
not realizing what we have
until it's gone.
dried up worms decorate the side walk,
leaving the dirt,
nearly abandoned.

As machine work does,
I'm refueled each morning
with three pills,
replacing emotion
with steal.

you'll grow back,
as everything does
in the spring.
*******,
as we remembered that we no longer knew
how to love each other.

a cycle,
of becoming strangers.
 Sep 2013 Emma E Jones
Jimmy King
Every moment
Tattoos a web
Of ink
In the deepest
Seas of my mind
Floating like oil
And only in sleep
Can I dive
And swim
Edit
And undo
Until
Waking up
I'm once again
Just on the shore
Looking out,
The Great Pacific
Garbage Patch
On my eyes,
Helpless
To do anything
But keep walking,
Crossing countless grains
Of sand
Serving to keep my body
On the Earth
And imagining itself
Out in the sea
Sinking-
Pulled
By the weight of the ink
The past
The trash
 Sep 2013 Emma E Jones
Jimmy King
Driving through the darkness
The Wendy's bag
On the side of the road
Can start to look
A bit like roadkill-
Which it is
In a way,
Because no matter
How many broken people
I cram into the front
Seat of my car
And no matter
How many cigarettes
They've all been smoking
The blindness
And the landfills
Which push the rich
Further North of the city
Will continue to push
 Sep 2013 Emma E Jones
Jimmy King
From a needle,
As from a fountain pen,
Pours ink
Into my skin

A promise of
Eternity sealed
And very few
Will ever know

(I wonder why
Those I love
Are those to whom
I only lie)
 Sep 2013 Emma E Jones
Jimmy King
The lights are off,
The fans aren't spinning
And even when the sun
Is shining through the windows
I still look at the digital clock
To check the time
 Sep 2013 Emma E Jones
Jimmy King
Perhaps
I'm just
Poetically
Exhausted

Everything
I've been writing lately
Has seemed the product
Of one too few cups
Of caffeinated tea

I've written a lot-
About loss,
Autumn,
Syria-
And I think
I've now used tea
As a metaphor
For just about
Everything

But what's done is done
And the seasons are always changing
And the U.S. will attack Al-Assad
No matter how many words I write
And I'll never be able to get
This ******* tea-stain
Off this ******* page
In my ******* journal
And maybe

To get through
The hopelessness
of it all
I should just
Keep writing-
It seems
To have worked
So far
 Sep 2013 Emma E Jones
Jimmy King
Sad Winter music plays
In the background of my life
As I sit in an empty doorway
Writing empty love poems
All across my skin
And I think about the potential
Tattoos I could put there
To one day look at
And see nothing

This weather
Of things slow to end
And things slow to begin
Makes me think that maybe
One day soon
These empty poems
Could have meaning again
 Sep 2013 Emma E Jones
Arabella
Fluttering
highlights of the sun
softly kiss the earth.

A flower I placed in your hair
lays by your side.
Now wrinkled,
and grey.
And I'm to scared to see
what else is gone.

blank pages,
with indents of our nights before
face me.

body
twisting and turning,
freshly crisped grass
adjusts itself
to comfort your heavy mind.
Knowing that its significance is less
when you wake.
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