Poems

Individual poems

I Am Not You

I Am Not You Verse 1I drag my shadow like a busted kite behind me on a wind that never quits and never really knows where it is blowingMy head is a hallway of broken speakers and noise whispers where every stupid brilliant thought keeps tripping on its own showingThey call me gifted like that

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Human Garbage Disposal

Human Garbage Disposal I will take your leftovers, your scrapsyour half-finished drinksyour emotional trash you do not want to sit with when the party endsI chew through plates and problems like steelswallow other people’s drama by the bucket while they call me their “rock” their “one real friend” Then when I am bloated with their

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Honey on Your Knuckles

Honey on Your Knuckles Verse 1 The kitchen bulb is hummingcasting yellow on the floorClothes are scattered in the hall leading to the door. You’re standing at the basinbarefoot on the tileLicking honey from your knuckle with a sideways smile. Tank top slipping down the shoulderhair up in a twistA mess of sugar and the

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Holy Mess Hallelujah

Holy Mess Hallelujah I woke up stuck to the couch in yesterday’s jeans with a hangover halo buzzing round my skull like a broken fridgePhone full of bills, missed callsthree “we should talk” and one “you’re late againwe’re burning the bridge” Kitchen looks like God sneezed glitter and ramen packets all over a sink that

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Heavy Night

Heavy Night Verse 1 Your voice runs heavy, smooth and deepA sound that puts my will to sleep. Inside the quiethear the call, I lose my step, I give it all.Chorus In the heavy night, where the shadows lieWe find the place, just you and I. Lost in the motionon the brink, In the heavy

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