distance makes us
***** calls and texts of shame
1:43 AM attempts at conversing
the simple hellos ignored
and the ‘I love you’s forever out
of sync.
you are
bully and ringmaster
and my master to your masochism,
strangling the dollface you’ve longed
too long
to want.

we,
armistice.

we, never.

he and me, ****** to each other
I listen and wither with every I miss you
                          slave,
                  servant,

          animal.