they were a quiet fifteen years if you listen quietly you can almost hear them hear her heart murmur she's 28 she's lost her way used to sing her heart out now she just vomits it knows every public place in this city wishes she smoked or drank did anything 'sides eat she knows how to repair garbage disposals clogged drains but not her life she pulls ...
i want you to help me find this tear lost in that ocean near that bridge the one he last / i cried when we dressed up for the band and looked like oscar winners the night he sang to me held me close and his warm breath low in my ear was a newly wrapped box of chocolates and we were ten again i want the tear ...
Friends burn. I am at my best friend's apartment, I am exposed. There is money flying straight out the walls - In the chink between bricks and window, Her oil heat is warming the icicles on the trees outside. There are memories flying out of the walls, Mortar-covered hands reaching for me: Hands that have reached out for me For over 2 centuries Brick by brick; in South Philly These hands built ...
Today she cried rubies and Tears her clothes were old They were torn her Down jacket With the fleece lining Was molting And she had nothing to give Someone needed directions today. Found her way to grandma, Hadn't seen her in twenty years. Grandma can't make cinnamon rolls, So I was her hands and the spicy creases in my palms were the road to her house. The road to Grandma Peggys heart is long ...
"set me free!" "set me free!" begs the buttefly i vacuum around my coffee table and pretend not to hear i am busy caring for my plants curling my hair drying my nails making my house pretty and the butterfly is so f*cking pretty it is prettier than me it will make me pretty how can i let it go? i wear it in my brooch when it dies. i tell of its glory with ...
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