x
my heart bleeds like my gums after chewing on a Brillo pad
283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSOZGrijwI
“the straw went through the coconut!”
she shouted as she cycloned out the door,
mumbled to myself, “nevermore.”
283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkt0WYLPruY
like that first cold snap in autumn283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3U4X9oBrV
when the summer rose surrenders to the sudden fall in clime.
And finally withers, fades, and dies, thorny on its vine.
like our love that october night when your crystal lips of frost 283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wlFyNkqGz
first kissed this ready-for-easy-picking ripe and juicy butternut squash.283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkj8BfqsPMH
left decayed and blackened, once green and naive to the core.
mumbled to myself, “nevermore.”
283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8VI6gjk65
jagged and digitized are my emotions 283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUScm0u3eAD
as i scroll through our photos of the good times seen283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMWc8cKMPN
through a myriad of tears and a cracked cel phone screen.
If memories are butterflies, they lay in a cocoon of cement underneath the basement floor.
mumbled to myself, “nevermore.”
283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYozPEhwaeT
love is heavy,
like a two-liter jug of pepsi
set out under the summer star too long, flat and fizzless.
cubes of ice and photons, like us, at war.
mumbled to myself, “nevermore.”
283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Jz9gyVji4
my ripped and faded heart might one day mend
with a needle and a little TLC, like patched-up jeans worn while begging at my knees
ridding my frayed sadness like a pet shampoo rids dogs of ticks and fleas.
stitching up all my past hurts, too, like when i was ignored at four.
mumbled to myself at five, “nevermore.”
283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90M0sV4VEL
it may come to pass that i choose to live my life,
not gasping like an ICU patient choking in an oxygen tent, dying from pneumonia,
but with the full lung capacity of the winged-god mercury,
as he sprints through the sky in a marathon race to patagonia.
like cyclists fleetly pedaling
through the hills and flats of the tour de france, 283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhR6S4Cpsz
their torn-up knees from peloton crashes, patched anew,
like my torn-up, bleached-out denim heart caused by love,
an aneurysm, like a racer’s bike tire that just blew.
283Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIMpsQyMv7
one day, perhaps, i might smile more
might even laugh and roar.
when that time comes i shall caw:
YES! FOREVERMORE!
ns3.15.146.2da2
