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Julie Butler
Poems
Nov 2015
isn't it
I'm still just standing in my own ashes
the debris in which I've burned,
night after night for you
learning there are no breaths
deep enough
& I can't tell if the whiskey is helping
then again
neither is the screaming
try shaking off
what's been chained to you;
pulling skin from bone
shouldn't feel like home
and a big bowl of
whatever it is you want from me
you see, I keep having this dream
where you are
so
happy to see me
& now I can't seem to
appreciate mornings
it's been
a hundred days of bleeding
in need of
something unkeepable
something my arms can't possibly
reach for
when
all my
words
I keep warm for you
straight through my
frozen throat
a broken chest plate
just in case
you need them to save you
Written by
Julie Butler
CA
(CA)
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