Her bones sound like the shaky clink of a glass teacup
On a glass plate
And she’s trying to keep it all steady
Her eyes are blue and huge inside her glasses which
I hope make me look as larger than life as she pretends I am
As I pretend to be
Even though it’s against protocol
I hold her hand as we walk through the aisles
And it feels like that one time paper became human
And asked you to pretend it was
Just long enough to know what love felt like
I wanted to tell her I love her
“You’re so sweet,” she said
“So handsome”
“Such a nice smile” she said
I wanted to push the red beaming sun of my face to her cheek
so she could feel me blush
First we looked for hair spray
And then we looked for lipstick
Her favorite chocolate
Which she confided tasted like ****
But she had to stick to sugar free now
And then we looked for her arthritis medicine
Adult diapers
A bedside ******
Please take the years I am not using
I’d die young to keep you here a little longer
To fight back the dust in your bones
And the paper of your skin
I want you to wake up every morning
So when I ask you how your day has been
You can say more than
“Well
I woke up again”
********* lady
If you knew what I would do to stop this
Her smile never fades
No shame hidden in the wrinkles of her face
I let her out the back so she can get to the street corner faster
“Such a nice young boy” She says
And I just want to tell her
I love her
Jul 19, 2011
Jul 19, 2011 at 12:19 AM UTC
Her bones sound like the shaky clink of a glass teacup
On a glass plate
And she’s trying to keep it all steady
Her eyes are blue and huge inside her glasses which
I hope make me look as larger than life as she pretends I am
As I pretend to be
Even though it’s against protocol
I hold her hand as we walk through the aisles
And it feels like that one time paper became human
And asked you to pretend it was
Just long enough to know what love felt like
I wanted to tell her I love her
“You’re so sweet,” she said
“So handsome”
“Such a nice smile” she said
I wanted to push the red beaming sun of my face to her cheek
so she could feel me blush
First we looked for hair spray
And then we looked for lipstick
Her favorite chocolate
Which she confided tasted like ****
But she had to stick to sugar free now
And then we looked for her arthritis medicine
Adult diapers
A bedside ******
Please take the years I am not using
I’d die young to keep you here a little longer
To fight back the dust in your bones
And the paper of your skin
I want you to wake up every morning
So when I ask you how your day has been
You can say more than
“Well
I woke up again”
********* lady
If you knew what I would do to stop this
Her smile never fades
No shame hidden in the wrinkles of her face
I let her out the back so she can get to the street corner faster
“Such a nice young boy” She says
And I just want to tell her
I love her
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