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She Smiled at Me Today
she smiled at me today
that kind of, "I'm only talking to you because I have to" smile "so If I am going to I might as well pretend that I can stand your presence" "( ---why do you talk to me--- )" two years ago I'd take that and turn it into some type of mutual attraction night of drinking, making small talk magnetic loathing flipped into youthful sky diving the best mistakes feel like adventures we don't write numbers on napkins no us adults whisper on down to the bathroom conquest in the form of crashing skin soma measured down and refined like quarters or rupees you meant *this much*
I want my money back
counting the tiles on the bathroom floor makes better conversation you are at the brim with lithograms and parchment an S.O.S. bottle too full of hot air to drown just as lonely sad as me floating along waiting until somebody opens you up and reads I will not read you tonight
love the solitude the ceiling stops the stars from hearing your song
sing it anyways the heart beats black with tar and one-way road signs
drive it back The next time I ask you how your night went I'll smile too
— Kevin Holmes |
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Judas
He feels cold, buoyant, a lime wedge in ice, wishes he were tattoo crawling under the bartender's skirt. He always looks
at legs first, knows he'll have time on the weekend to do penance for living. He imagines dying old. In his dreams, snowballs will war
against zeppelins. Fishnet will stain his nightmares. He will contract lip piercings from kissing strange women. He will remember running
with tired metaphors, wanting to puke on the counter, watch hockey on TV, dissolve on the way home, in a car, going
somewhere instead of waiting for something to happen. He knows an empty glass may be the last thing he touches so tenderly.
— Michael Constantine McConnell |
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Emily’s business
Reconcile first verses with boxing Undressing pressurized rays Shifting Satan to Natas In a wor(l)d where The dis(ease)d roam believing That their love for poetry Differs not from their Love of memory
— Trevor Abes |
