Poetry

Dependency

 

If you’d want me

some other way,

Just say and I’ll

change the way my heart beats

I’ll change how the air flows

out of my lungs, my breath

            is yours.

 

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I Talk to Myself

 

I talk to myself about herself

About how he’s not really me.

I think she might be my

Animus or Anima

Or maybe I am hers

Or maybe Jung was wrong

Or maybe I should talk

To other people about their walks

And grades and mundanities and semblances of lovers.

 

But I prefer the company of ourself.

 

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Sorry, Teach Me

 

Teach me how to death growl, would ya?
I’ll make it worth your while

while I slide down to your

pleasure regions.

 

Teach me how to be a cutie,

could ya?
I’ve already got

a pretty red dress

and

some fruity perfume.

 

If you want to,

you know?

Like I don’t mean to give you an imperative,

but I

don’t know?

How to request assistance/work with others/play nice?

and this

is the best I can do, so

 

Teach me how to death growl, please?
I’ll show you something new, too

sorry for asking thank you

for listening i’ll be on my way

have a nice day stranger

 

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Lonely Holes Need Photons

 

Don't holes know where holes go

when holes go away? They

don't; they're holes; without brains.

What's a gap that has no

stuff around to contrast its gapness?
It's a paradox. But

also so lonely.

A lonely gap, a lonely hole

hoping for photons and

friendship.

I own one whole hole and

I fill it with photons and

friendship

(though my hole does not long for those.)

Don't holes know what holes would like?
Don't holes long for more than naught?

They don't. They're holes. Without brains.

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What We Think About When Trying Not To

 

My lover loves gore and horror and her lover wants to be a god. But our ambitions may exceed our means, and there is no pause; we feel time grating against our telomeres, making them weak, eroding them to uselessness. Oh, the want for use, and to be used, and to have purpose and something to do; we have that want, and yet we both find joy in failure, and suffering – and I suffer for her, because I enjoy it, but she does not suffer for me because – at least not often – because her wants are not like that; they complement my own, and so we make a set. We are ideals, though the traitor works hard to stop this.

 

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You Have My Favourite Name

 

The air painted warmly by Saharan sand:

In that yellow haze, the wind played with my hair,

and in my coat

I wonder if it was playing with you too;

because nature is your muse, and not mine. But

that day,

I enjoyed the breeze and foreshadowing sepia

 

I lend her pages, and ask for her own,

politely; our acquaintance is new

And if

ever those days come, when we share freely,

then even the words here are hers to hear

And

even though, say all signs, this is excessive,

aren’t poets known for their excess of feelings?

 

I’ll lend her pages

Ever more pages

Even though pages

She has plenty

 

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Boundless Romance

 

Rain drop/sky kiss;

One, another, then many

 

Breezes playing

So teasingly with my hair

 

Wet grass/soft licks

This affection knows no end



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Oh, Conquer My Head, Future-Lover:

 

In an image:

Armour-piercing-amore piercing
“Ah, more piercing, and more piercing”

Adore-piercing willingly pierced me.

 

In words:

I’m under-armed with pomegranate
I’m brightly coloured like a target

Look, ah, shall I send you a letter?
“Dear future lover, invade me please?

Enjoy, observe, absorb, conquer my head?

Look, I’m such a servile conquest a,

Willing, lovestruck, conquest!”