Please tell me this is my summer
I've never been more gold.

I hope my summer is with him
The sunny days outshine the rain

I want this.
Indefinitely.

Hon, Honey, Baby, Dear, Darling

I really like you

but I like it when you call me my name

somehow that word rolled over your lips sounds silver

and all the pet names in the world:

nails on a chalkboard

I think the ears
might just be
the most beautiful
part of the body

now before you object
and suggest
abs, legs, bums, or chests
may I remind you that
in time
all parts earlier addressed
will wrinkle, sag and fade
like ******* the air out of a plastic bag

But not ears.
They are the same ears after 2 years, 5 years and 50 years

They won't wilt
wont lose their form
(unlike abs, legs, bums, or chests)
and that's why
to me
ears are best

hearts don't break
porcleain, glass, bone, spun sugar
all can shatter in a heartbeat
it's so overdramatic to say that hearts can be broken

hearts don't break

instead,  they bruise
like pulverized flesh ran over by 18 wheels
deflated
black and blue
by some lover or another

and when someone tries
to touch
you flinch
your little raw piece of meat within your chest
is just too tender right now

but not broken
broken is forever
bruised is for now

Life starts to feel fake
when you're enjoying dreams more
than being awake

I'd like you to tell me
that you like it when I tuck my hair
behind my ears

That you don't mind how stupid my laugh is
tears running down my face
turning all of me red

That you like
The mottled white dots
on all my teeth,
the freckle constellations on my arms,
and the scars on my knees.

and until there's someone to
like me for these
then I suppose
that person will have to be me.

I barely half know you
but we've met before
haven't we?
my fingertips racing up your spine
your hand resting around my throat

when we woke up
I was in your arms
not like puzzle pieces
but like tangled telephone cords

when I woke up
you were gone again
that same person
I only half knew

I'm selfish
single-minded
greedy
and I don't really give a **** about you
your job.
your kids.
your vacation photos.
that time you put a scarf on your cat.

I'm narcissistic
vain
and more than just a little neurotic.

Worst of all,
I try to pretend that
I am not all of the aforementioned characteristics
while I'm acutely aware of the fact that

I'm ******* awful.

Nice to meet you. How long will this one last?

she stares at his face
she tries to make a deal but
she can’t force his hands

You are not the rain,
not the steady patter tapping on the windowsill at midnight
nor the soft collarbone kisses in the afternoon
nor the haughty torrential downpour, tamed by no one and no thing
you're just a boy.
You're not the rain.

To be petite
thin
dainty
shy
Why does the concept of femininity revolve around being less than a man?

When you keep us worried about our waistlines
you never have to fear us

See Found Poems but these are my favourite.

1. without some for you

and your music

and also had pasta


2. 7 mm,

one of the major cities,

you

3.  search process

which look, it recognizes us

and what is the function ?

4. bread, espressos

:any

isolated


5. of all conferences

and finish eyes gazing

into Cancun East

Ok so the new mac software has a dictation program. I let it run during an animal physiology lecture, it was so funny I sort of turned it into poetry with a few modifications. (I took out words that it actually got right and were super science-y like T cells and also words like LRP that aren’t things and I only then changed punctuation and physical layout)

Let me know if you can find some meaning or humour in these found poems.

Steve bring it by

the new proteins bars

euros



without some for you

and your music

and also had pasta



see you

so he hears that

you first

use a euro or so

and phone

by a little while

see what is CCR



Heintz hearts tires

in this to the signal

Mickey’s

was so many years over many years.



He uses Stevens now

she is seeing proteins

and we don’t mayor

this is something for me and Olivia



So honestly it was something going on inside

and so is he is always something

when you see

here is the Winterlochen



7 mm,

one of the major cities,

you




search process

which look, it recognizes us

and what is the function ?



start by punching

in short call with the show

in law class this is a law



bread, espressos

:any

isolated



using my own postulations

to hear that fossil

fossil tires, the possibilities…

and here is a hot spot

deep blue sea

response was you

can see you later

mostly out you are

shouldn’t

parsing parties

and seems that all times

so we burgesses to see

whether these fees

so we are you

so busy

with the police officer



so this is the name

off for you Lisa

so is this needed ?

to serve on, since it’s always interesting

and if there is no proof

what is the man ?



Dennis, is the report from 17%?

raise my house and Sivula .

the left sense is the other

10% to leave myself

seven you get his sister.



Or from prefrontal cortex

you were able to listen

else and if we

so this show

on specific salsa

and effective T cell receptor activation





to decrease the settings

so sure so you transfected

as we buy one

a little simple

were able to game

is at seven

and we have two songs

this nonsense

if we were in Gennessee



tires times

who are noticed

that it is the same as control

were able to rescue the response

so by cars seem to be

a long *** tease you





Silverset

remember to Silversun

So we don’t

House and it’s just something so this shows



That Hughes

that Tersini

seems to be downstream

cheated is this

please rewrite Oterson



times we’ve started

for further brothers

specifically incontinence

ball, doesn’t you know the rest ?



of all conferences

and finish eyes gazing

into Cancun East



it’s consecutively

it doesn’t Vermarle



any if you have time

is there any messages

sorry

I was in response

to slight chance



you can also

it’s seven

and consider

you get a little more pronounced

decrease in Austin

so we see here

just curious

to be through soon

does it sound ?

and whether holiday,

actually awesome?

this medicine!

maybe you

got our road shows

to snooze constantly

is your sisters control as low ?

son



linguistically

“ hi you can see some more”

intense

bad

there’s greater

when an awesome

when you

Still waters run deep
There were flowers beside her
She did not love them

Hey, if I was blind
I would also wear sweatpants
I understand you

Refuse to believe
that life as we know it is
as good as it gets

What simple joy is:
To make a hot cup of tea
and drink it alone

Is it possible to be suffocated
by your own skin?
Trapped
beneath your bones?
Praying for a better life,
yet yours is perfect?


At least I can hide in vivid dreams,
between the notes in music
and behind the confident facade that has fooled so many.
Self loathing is the new black.

I don’t care if you’re trying to get better
I’m coming back
I can’t leave you alone
Sitting there, thinking you can repair
But I can’t let you do that, can I?
The urge is too great
As soon as there has been enough time
For you to regrow
Crust over
And almost heal
My itching fingers can't resist
And now you’re broken again
seeping.