morphine. i found ashes in the pages of the photo albums under my bed yesterday, leaves turned red pages to the colder chapters and i thought you could still grow a rose this time of year but then i remembered when we used to make flower crowns in sixth grade so i took some morphine; it helped with the pain
the night is younger than ourselves and we run through breakspears road shattering the lampposts with our bare hands, yes we are the new generation! everybody knows we aren’t scared of losing the pieces in our own, we just want to see the skin pulled off the tips of our fingers! (when you’ve been feeling the blunt edges of scalpels and needles all your life walking on glass starts to feel like heaven)
codeine— hell is getting hotter! she took to the clouds and the glass shards wrote crimson sonnets on the bottoms of her feet, marietta i trusted you i really did, i made you promise that you’d stay; not with me, of course (some things are more important in the end) i wanted you to stay here. but you wanted to see the stars so i choke down the cough syrup; one ache distracts me from the other
dear marietta, the light distorts so strangely here in the water. this is how i want to leave this place