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ibwib Aug 2022
little bug
you exist not
in the forms
that are chosen for you
but in me

and when you arrive
i exist not
in me
but in the world
that your host paints
ibwib Aug 2022
Mom and dad
would drink cappuccinos
at the gas station.
We'd stop on the way
to our place of ritual.
Often, that's as far as we'd go.
They'd let me have a sip
or two,
and I'd burn my tongue
as the desert's breeze
would graze my cheeks.
ibwib Aug 2022
stripped of the world
i am a blob too

cry tears of joy
pain and anger

with desire to be
and sometimes not
ibwib Aug 2022
i asked you "what's wrong?"
for the twentieth time
this month

and you did not hesitate
to tell me that
you don't know
ibwib Aug 2022
maybe i can
try to give you
a new place

take your hand
walk you down

mold you anew
from overlord to
fly on the wall

you won't die
but you will
be less annoying

i hope
ibwib Jul 2022
i see you
silly little boy

under that nest of a head
or maybe you're a ways lower

behind that tiny heart turned upside down
the one that marks your real one

i see you
struggling to form sentences

staying quite on the surface
saying silly little things from afar


because you don't know how
because you're afraid
ibwib May 2022
such is this fear's hold
that brings Beanpole to prayers old

"I don't want to hurt anyone!" he cries
"What if I'm the bad guy?"

"What if I get hurt?"

but you haven't moved an iota
and neither has anyone else

breathe
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