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run if you want to.

I don't get you

It's been said.

(By you.)

Your music poem heroic myth combos;

I don't got 'em in me according to you so ****

 

Pride is what I've got as far as:

Loving you, possessing you, longing you forever and ever and always

Faithing this: I get you and no one else can ever more, just me.

 

Me wrong: ha!

But apparently maybe

So call me

Or don't cause we sleep together;

no call needed bby

 

Speak instead so

I can scratch your dreams;

I'mma ******* Count of Monte Cristo type here,

All useless revenge

Offensive retreats I pretend are defense;

therefore, QED legitimate.

 

A chess player bluff but no

I'm not actually that fancy

I don't fence cause my wrist is ******

don’t play chess because it will not be just any another opponent, it will be my Papa, teaching me the best ways to beat him, in the end.

don’t conjugate Latin anymore,

(she died, the woman who whispered there is a way out of radical christianity and heterosexuality but more importantly taught Latin precisely, inspiring.)

I cheated on the last test anyway so **** that fake fact.

 

So I just been hoarding meanness

up down,

Left and right, inside out

 

(In other words: ******

 

Sorrow isn't a thing we people make up but we sure spend a lot of time manufacturing it for each other it seems like, and I don't want to be good at doing this.

 

It doesn't make me tough

Or better

Or mas yours

Or honest or what I'm afraid you think I am:

 

A wilted desert thing

Secreting thorns first

Exploding them out in every direction

Unpredictably

Unblooming into a prickled seeding creature

nonetheless virile vibrant,

Hungering but not starved

 

Like home this summer,

The summer you wouldn't believe

If I told you how green it all was down I-25;

(ours and also you and Maria's but we count more than you and she cause she doesn't glow anymore who knows why I wish she would because she is the best poetry you have let out so far just opinion here.)

 

But so.

Unbelievable.

Like a desert dreamt itself into meadows and unknown greens that you know better words for than I do.

 

You missed this.

 

You hate missing things

Pretend they were never there.

 

You just want to turn longing into creation,

So you're the best at survival

And transforming and I don't want to just wilt out on you, I want to become a cactus that can be anywhere and all where

But I won’t pretend it wasn’t real because I was there and Santa Fe broke my heart and you can  forget all you want but that is fact and nothing changes it even though I can bear it, bore it all summer, and then broke a bunch of your bundles of trust this fall and now you can have reasons for what I've done wrong and I wont argue against the facts.

 

But I am not incapable or lazy or insane or crazy. I do not need men to tell me I'm bad with money when the only times I am is when I am wrapped into their lives. I do not need to be mistrusted when I know what I know and have done what I have done and do not try to reconcile the two.

 

Reconciliation? Personal analysis? **** that. All I had to know is that here we wouldn't birth fights about who did what wrong, and that I, I am not alone in this world.

 

P.S. Why am I the one left to keep us safe if you don't trust me enough to believe me when I say your child could be mine one day and I, I would not keep silent watches, build walls with peepholes. Keep believing it, though. Cause I'm the only one in on the secret who hasn't feared for a child's life around you yet. and I'd bet you any amount that every single other person has had that moment of terror. So figure out who it is you want on your side, kid.

( Don't leave yourself alone in this world. )

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