To dream of you, my nose bleeds
I smell metal as I wake
another feather pillow wrecked
another day to ache.
I should sleep on only earth
give my essence to the ground
another link uncouples
as you the couple found.
She doesn’t seem so much to me
as a photo can but tell
gritty-featured, highlighted -
send me straight to hell.
How comely of you, darling,
to pick an Essex girl
it’s where I left my guts for you
mixed in with cockle shells.
I see you don’t yet trust enough
to picture your accord
trust that I shan’t murmur
the bile I can’t afford.
I shan’t waste time to wonder
at the steel of your affair
curse my spiteful stomach!
I cannot help to care.
It twists me to oblivion
and sunders me to tears
my lower lip is bloodied
as my pillow, so I fear.
Cast the feathers upwards
into the fatal blue
caught on gentle thermals
perhaps they’ll find their way to you.
Jan 3, 2018
Jan 3, 2018 at 6:14 PM UTC
To dream of you, my nose bleeds
I smell metal as I wake
another feather pillow wrecked
another day to ache.
I should sleep on only earth
give my essence to the ground
another link uncouples
as you the couple found.
She doesn’t seem so much to me
as a photo can but tell
gritty-featured, highlighted -
send me straight to hell.
How comely of you, darling,
to pick an Essex girl
it’s where I left my guts for you
mixed in with cockle shells.
I see you don’t yet trust enough
to picture your accord
trust that I shan’t murmur
the bile I can’t afford.
I shan’t waste time to wonder
at the steel of your affair
curse my spiteful stomach!
I cannot help to care.
It twists me to oblivion
and sunders me to tears
my lower lip is bloodied
as my pillow, so I fear.
Cast the feathers upwards
into the fatal blue
caught on gentle thermals
perhaps they’ll find their way to you.
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