Have you ever seen someone that was so magnetic, so different from what you knew they were an anomaly to your brain? So electric you could feel a buzz humming over your skin when you got near them? Did it catch you off guard? Did you stare? Did you bite your lip and taste the metallic earthy taste of lightning on your tongue that they left in the atmosphere? Did their presence catch in your throat and you swallowed and glimpsed something you always wanted to exist but never knew could?


Did they have honey glazed eyes and did they destroy your future and rebuild it around themselves in the lapse between your next breath? Did you know you were doomed to always taste them in every cup of coffee and feel them in every storm?


Did you already wish it would never end?

there's weeds winding up her wrists 
and the vines of ivy have grown high,
high up her thighs
where black and cream mingle
not sweet enough for envyline
there's a ghost in her bed
and she made friends 
with the spirit of her moon sister
pay no mind to her
bitter envyline is just
what a little to take
a little too much
simply just stardust
in her galaxy of eyes
between her thighs
she's been tarnished
daddy's baby, dollface, honey
getting around with no money
collecting hearts like butterflies
tear off the wings
save them in a jar
sow them together again 
her cherry pies
like those cosmic eyes
draw you in with a little tornado
a little spark of volcano
before she melts beneath you
daddy can taste it on her tongue
she's been seeing someone

Skeletal remains
On a grave 
In the dust of snow
Where no flowers grow
And love knows no one
A town of abandonment
People forsaken
Give me a wedding ring
Wrapped in a coffin 

My flesh is white snow
my bones are dead tree limbs
my blood is warm red wine.

My heart is in danger
From a stranger with a pretty face.
My heart is hanging from a noose.
Then you cut me loose.

I am a suicide bomb.
Counting down all night long.
My heart is astray.
Her eyes look manic and there's no hiding.
She'll detonate.
And rip my veins away.

I know we've had a rough past
and you've never been very good to me
but I hope this year is different
because I used you as a crutch in July
my oh my, don't let me down
the ocean is waiting
baby September, be good to me.
please ♥

~Al