Moon princess
always- too volatile
for a prince or king-
stranded in a cold crater
created from some flaming
tongue lashing then leashed.

Some stupid *** quote says:
"If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best"
But it should really be:
"If you can't handle me at my worst then maybe I ought to go the **** away until you can tolerate me again because I'm not in any position to foist my shitstorm on anyone"

Or maybe I should stick to the original

A mother bird sat and
sent another mother bird at
some other burning tent

So away she went

It's a strange feeling
not wanting to be pretty and approachable

but wanting instead to be
celestial and vaguely menacing

I don't need
you to be completed

I need you
because I love you

Need like water upon waking,
not quite dehydration, just thirsty

Ten fingers
went to tend her
garden of buttons:

The right hand kisses cheeks
with Mr. **** and then greets
The Twins with a tender twist,
as the **** on the door when

He comes,
and we lay atop each
other to be a team—of beams
of light strobing across some sheets
of ice, maybe—with steadily raised stats

Bitter pill picnic
tables set to
prepare the
banquet

Pilgrims gorge until
pillow stuffed
full of itself
and doubt

Doubled over tummy
ache: dummy done
did to itself
-regrettably-

Pillow fluffed and
mattress flipped
to fight the
mighty itis

God **** it all
if everything with
you isn't some form
of instinct or reflex

All you had to do
was take your head
out of your ***, give
a **** for ten minutes,
and give me a decent  
apology

But I'm not worth that

I trusted you because
you told me to, and
I shouldn't have

Now, almost all the balloons
are cut and gone already,
So I guess...

It's a good thing you
were never afraid of
losing me

My world hasn't crumbled like
a granola bar. I'm ok.

Closely, closely
quickly it comes
to K to control
elsewhere the
singular second
in a syllable
can canned
cancerous
a critical component
computing which
muscle