My first love who never loved me back
by @annacart
You're just a washed up superstar
Not even 17
Chains of charm bracelets and promise rings that appear in your hand like poison ivy crawls up a wall
Your tattoo, an artfully rendered serpent in a bikini climbs up your arm
Tar from the cigarettes you inhale like they're oxygen climbs up the walls of your lungs
Can't you see?
Promise rings mean nothing if you give them out like free candy
He's in love with me she says
He's gonna marry me someday she says
Did you see what that mouth do? He says
Do you see that ass swing? he says
I know you.
Living off of broken guitar strings and LSD
Hollows of your cheeks amplifying your voice, your song that everyone no longer listens to
You make mistakes,
In bottles of vodka you drink, 5 they say
5 girls in one night they say
Suspended for 5 days they say
5 cuts up each arm they say
You're in the hospital with a tube shoved down your throat and a dozen girls weeping at your bedside
Spoiler alert. None of them leave you. They actually believe that you have 11 cousins.
You're Apollo 13
A mission that fails a space shuttle that bursts into flames at the slightest
Static
Shock