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 Apr 2012 Steven Hutchison
mûre
If my world's a bakery
in an endlessly large country
you descend upon my city
we pass at the stale loaves
eyelashes flutter, aghast
like I'm an insect assailing your glasses
I watch you smile or grimace
Run your tongue, checking for guilt stuck in your teeth

"Oh! Hhey!!"

Your voice surprises us both
it is the same timbre in which I render
words more decadent than your courage
to spit at my living person
when it stands all but 5'6 and breathing in front of you
washing up bottle messaged on the beaches of my awareness
-*****, jezebel, ******-

-her-

See, I've been receiving your cookies
in brown paper parcels
Little birds didn't want me to miss out on the flavor

I see you, small creature
how quickly you frost your hate
with buttercream icing, your loathing is cake
you devour and feed to anyone who'll taste

You have laid your field fallow
and let me assume disgrace

I want to tell you you're wrong
I want to push you with my mind
I want to throw sprinkles at you

I see you, small creature
with scrunched up fists
and I taste your poison
like grand marnier
it spoils everything

The recipe was followed rule for rule
The souffle rose
***** though you may

I'd almost rather hug you
if it would squeeze out your wretchedness
a flouncing whirl cupcake summit

so we could be tin-pan square

and may our pastry never mix again.
I read,
to get rid of the pain.
For if I live someone else's life,
I have no time to be vain.

It helps me remember,
it helps me to forget.
It rests the burning ember,
of fear ever on my chest.

The person I wanted to be,
I cannot recall.
I once yearned to run free,
but now I just fall.

I read of others,
how they are proud and strong.
Thoughts of them smother,
so I feel I am no longer in the wrong.
Do not make me wait
I have to much to show
I am bursting at the seams
with laughter
Joy
Do not make me wait
for if I must
continue holding this within
I Will
Scream
adoration and admiration
tumbling from a fools mouth
Do not make me wait
for my thoughts are cruel
my heart weak
Do not wait
until I
burst
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