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 Aug 2013 Frankie T
Amber Grey
The car is speeding.
We can make it in three -
no, two and a half.

She’s laughing and swerving the car,
left and right,
our tires humming warning.

The passenger is holding the door handle,
not quite used to her driving
but already broken in that strange way.

She turns to me, a contorted comfort
glad to be along for the ride
and her neck strains as she thinks,
not wanting to lose sight of my eyes.

I tell her that i’m sad, and that nothing is right,
and her reply would linger in my head like the smell
sitting flatly on my thumb and index,
fixed in a gun.

*We’re artists, you know?
And maybe, on some absolute level,
we don’t want to be happy.
 Aug 2013 Frankie T
Amber Grey
We mustn't let her have a car.

She'll drive far away.

But I heard about the black ninety four accord,
I thought I'd name it Roomba.
And drive to her house,
or stop on the way home and sit under the stars.
I thought about how I'd sleep in it when I was tired,
eat in it when I'm hungry,
sit in it
maybe
with someone else.
Feed it,
clean it,
put nice things in it.
Drive to the beach.
Drive up the mountains.
Drive into the sky.
Drive into the ground.

Maybe he was right.
I mustn't have a car.

I'd drive far away.
 Aug 2013 Frankie T
Amber Grey
She had told me, with water in her right and
obligatory waves in her left
that they all wanted to feel special.

They didn’t want to do special things,
or think special thoughts,
but they all wanted to be seen as something

Unique, or breathtaking, and
so so so necessary
that they could drive us mad.

The sooner I could realize this,
she said,
the better off I would be.

And now, with nothing in my left  and
obligatory waves to my right

I wonder if this means that everyone
who has ever said that I am anyone

just wanted me to feel special.
 Aug 2013 Frankie T
Hallie Bear
You make the twist and curdle of muscle look sweet
Hoods of flesh clench
Lines extending towards congratulating champagne toasts
Liquid turned taught
Floating like a pair of scissors
Most subtle razor to ever caress
The tissue paper lips of the floor
You wrap your heady-spice palms
Flourishing and dripping
Every pulse a dropped memory
They whisper of inspiration and dust
Licks of silver swim through you
Eyes misty rocks where dreams go to impale their masters
Commanding the lovely, forming it to fit
Frost spangles the trees that create pillars of tendon
The ease of sandpaper on granite
You make silken
Simple.
What to do when you are hopelessly in lust with your 35 year old Russian ballet instructor...
We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.
White clouds refused to accept them, and the wind
Was too busy visiting sea after sea.
We did not succeed in interesting the animals.
Dogs, disappointed, expected an order,
A cat, as always immoral, was falling asleep.
A person seemingly very close
Did not care to hear of things long past.
Conversations with friends over ***** or coffee
Ought not be prolonged beyond the first sign of boredom.
It would be humiliating to pay by the hour
A man with a diploma, just for listening.
Churches. Perhaps churches. But to confess there what?
That we used to see ourselves as handsome and noble
Yet later in our place an ugly toad
Half-opens its thick eyelid
And one sees clearly: "That's me."
 Aug 2013 Frankie T
Emily
Paper Thin
 Aug 2013 Frankie T
Emily
And we talked all night, into morning.
Though I couldn't hear your voice I swear
I felt breath on my skin.

Struggling for a few moments of desperate sentiment,
Waiting for some suppressed feeling to
Soothe us in our laments.

Just whisper words that falter behind clenched teeth
And I'll say out loud the things I've spoken
Countless times in dreams.
I didn't come here to cry,
but you're in every crack on this street
making it harder then before.
We invented the winter
to fill my mouth with clouds
and watch trees sprout from bare branches.
I have a book full of poems,
34 about you;
empty words of a cluttered mind.
Everything worth saying
is trapped on the corners of your lips
below the sun of east Portugal
by the bay that burned your feet.
I watched a moth land on your eye lid;
you hardly even flinched.
The sewing machine in the sky
that held us close can't click forever,
neither can the clock on the mantle
and I fear we are running out of time to say
I'm sorry
and take back each rock we threw
before we forget each others faces.
Remember
the things we smoked,
and the love we made one Tuesday.
The feelings we shared as coldly
as the hands we never grasped.
You slid my bones from cellophane skin,
and threw them back to the shore,
just please give me back to Ohio
when October knocks on the brick between my veins.
Remember my eyes?
You took them on your back when you left,
and haven't seen them since.
I want to press  my cheek against your chest,
feel you breathing like so many times before.
If I could have one wish
I would run as far as it took to look into your eyes
just one last time,
and hope to god you notice.
97 days
12 grams
4 cigarettes
18 coffees,
and I still can't recall
the color of your spine.
 Jul 2013 Frankie T
AJ
I really don't think you understand.
I will explain it to you.

Being bulimic is convincing yourself,
That you don't like pizza, or chips, or ice cream.
And eventually you believe it whole heartedly.
And you cannot stand those foods anymore.

Being bulimic is pretending
To eat dinner in your room,
And just hiding it in a plastic bag,
Until you have time to get rid of it.

Being bulimic is more than just counting calories.
You count calories, and bites, and calculate percentage of calories from fat,
And how many calories you have left that day.
And you can't sleep if you haven't written every bite down.

Being bulimic is having an absolute panic attack
When dinner plans are changed.
You planned for this meal.
And now everything you worked so *******, is gone.

Being bulimic is waiting till 2 am,
When everyone is asleep,
So you can sneak out to the kitchen,
And take a bunch of food back to your room.

Being bulimic is binging on so much food,
Way beyond what makes your stomach feel comfortable,
And you don't even like the food your eating.
You don't even like it, and you just stuff it in your mouth.

Being bulimic is being able to ***** without a toothbrush,
And doing at least 600 crunches that night,
So that you don't need to cut yourself
For what you just did.

Romanticize it all you want,
But my teeth rotted,
And i still have friends that listen outside the bathroom door.
Have fun, because I'm not.
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