romantics are a dying breed
take her at her word
she’s a complicated girl
let her say she feels whatever she wants to say she…
— David Levithan, “Every Day”
morning after
thoughts about the impermanence of a hook up written in permanent marker in the places he touched
by Lindsay Bottos
“I washed your lips away.”
a drop everything kind of thing
He was never afraid of anything, his heart was all in, open eyes, clinging fingertips, or so he…
my primal heart still beats
Alice there’s a friend at the bottom of that glass
“drink me”until it’s good and done and then tell…
darling do you find it hard to sing along to all the songs
when he’s confessing it’s been you all along
and so often it was wounding trying to hold onlike that time your heart was burning up waiting
four lonely days in the depths of winter
he left you…
and our days go by
and i never needed you
and our days go by
and i never needed you
and i worked so hard
and i killed myself
and you broke my bones
and i sold my soulwe were just wasting time