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Kiagen McGinnis Feb 2012
******* in other people's beds because
private places are hard to come by when you're 19.
wet spots in crop-circle patterns. unapologetic. i think they are pretty because of where they came from:

the place where we can't get any closer and backstroking under colors that probably only exist on this other other plane we've created i recall how much i love being human because what are humans but love?

and sheets are but blank canvases.
Kiagen McGinnis Jan 2012
i used to want friends,
now all i want is to fill my mouth with mountain lake air and fill my space with pentax prints of places that feel like mine alone.

film smells like memories that you worked for.

somewhere out there is the thing that makes me know that i am not meant for sinking. the thing that i'll stay up chain smoking and sweating over because it's worth it,




what you love is always worth it.
Kiagen McGinnis Jan 2012
with a fall from grace, we have forgotten:
falling means at some point you reach the bottom
of your own false fears and lonesome desires,
heavy only because you allow them to be.
but however shallow, you still can see


love does not carry weight of it's own,
it only knows infinite lightness
and with dispositions set aside,
love only grows infinite brightness
without needing or greeding
love inspires catalyst rightness
Kiagen McGinnis Jan 2012
Mormons are boring
with their magic underwear
that covers too much.
Kiagen McGinnis Jan 2012
remember that time you tried to sit me down and tell me all the reasons why my heart was broken?

and i said, You can’t break that which isn’t yours, darling.

i am in a room full of babies who won’t look directly at me,

only at my chest or my shoes or anywhere they can send judgmental daggers because of their conceptions about our history which they shouldn’t give one **** about but people

Feed

off of dramatics.eat them up and **** them out.

oh, i’m sorry, am i making you uncomfortable by staring you straight in the eye? i am not afraid to confront the coffin of words between us but you would rather

Hide.

behind those long lashes and longer lies.

yeah, i know, i feel it too. we’re a walking graveyard of romance that should have been. i scared you because you could have taken me home to your mom. because i have my **** together and don’t play games. because we met under a full moon and a shot of whiskey and it seemed to easy to be true

easy is overrated.

my knees were once floppy for your love. now they are

Locked. rigid. resonating. why do you keep letting fear win all your rounds?

i will never be able to look the other way.
Kiagen McGinnis Jan 2012
my mom says, ‘don’t live for other people’ as she drinks a breakfast beer and her orange snowboard pants glow freakily under our kitchen light

this is the woman who raised me to believe that there is nothing i can’t do

her own ballerina dreams suspended as i came along

a small town, high school baby

scandal.

she never lowered her gaze.

i’m smart because of her

and stubborn. i’m not insecure and i don’t apologize

because of her.

she looks so perfect, i don’t even reach for a camera.
Kiagen McGinnis Jan 2012
fell in love over crepes and the sky turning from orange to blue.

life becomes simple and bright when you stop second guessing yourself.

sorta
like
those
eyes
of
his.
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