im guilty--
biting my nail, biting my lip,
biting my
t o n g u e
fidgeting, flickering eyes that go
on and off, on and off
me
im chronic,
nervous,
in a state of
mind your own
business
im obsessed with
looking down at my feet as i walk
___
im forever stuck
in this awkward
edge-of-pubescence
b o d y
when i've already
died
a few hundred times
over
___
i dont have *******
i have two hearts,
beating out of my chest
___
im fragile,
tender,
might just topple over
or burst
into a million pieces of
confetti,
in my room:
its always somebody's birthday
that somebody is me
but i don't know somebody,
perhaps i used to know me
perhaps i never did
___
sometimes i want
oranges:
bright, round, yellow
fresh, spunky, don't-give-a-fuck
ill roll
whenever you put me down
im just a lemon:
yellow, iffy-butty
please
dont put me down
___
i just want someone to know me
(love me)
i just want to be an orange:
i wanna be what i seem
nothing to go off about
nothing to get put down about
___
i come as i am
and i get sent back home for it
you see--
i know nothing
all too well
Oct 16, 2018
Oct 16, 2018 at 12:47 AM UTC
im guilty--
biting my nail, biting my lip,
biting my
t o n g u e
fidgeting, flickering eyes that go
on and off, on and off
me
im chronic,
nervous,
in a state of
mind your own
business
im obsessed with
looking down at my feet as i walk
___
im forever stuck
in this awkward
edge-of-pubescence
b o d y
when i've already
died
a few hundred times
over
___
i dont have *******
i have two hearts,
beating out of my chest
___
im fragile,
tender,
might just topple over
or burst
into a million pieces of
confetti,
in my room:
its always somebody's birthday
that somebody is me
but i don't know somebody,
perhaps i used to know me
perhaps i never did
___
sometimes i want
oranges:
bright, round, yellow
fresh, spunky, don't-give-a-fuck
ill roll
whenever you put me down
im just a lemon:
yellow, iffy-butty
please
dont put me down
___
i just want someone to know me
(love me)
i just want to be an orange:
i wanna be what i seem
nothing to go off about
nothing to get put down about
___
i come as i am
and i get sent back home for it
you see--
i know nothing
all too well
