me from a year ago looks at me from a minute ago
with her stupid
*******
hormones
and her stupid
*******
youth.

benjamin button is real but only in the form of knowledge

I think of you. Your ******-touch that crosses my eyelids
with chlamydia fingernails accenting in all the
wrong places. The white powder trail leading like a
highway to your right nostril—the unemployment rate
like a dropped lit cigarette in the ******* apartments available. I think of you.
I think of you.
I thought of you.

I
saw the stars move in circles last
night. Bright sight with thoughts like no
other. My mother did not
exist. The grass kissed my lips but the only words I could
recite—*I saw the stars move in circles last night.

*** and Radiohead
We are high and everything but dry.

I am the narcissist that
fell in love with my own
mind and sadly found out:
It's an abusive relationship.

carved you out of me
and the cancer is gone.
i'll deny every word of it but
(i know we both look at the holes)

-
-
*My eyes love you so much—
I only wanted to see two of you.
I only wanted to see two of you.

my heart bursts
with the beat
of all my blood
pumping at once.
not bound.
not bound.
but bouncing back to
basics.