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Million Dollar Birthday Fries
You cursed the candles,their flirty flicker,like a wicked smile after a lurid laugh at your expense.The cake was like cardboard,choked down with a cold glass of sick,as celebrations go,that one was… kind of shit,but you scraped a smile onto your face during the family zoom call,hoping the walls didn’t echo too much and reveal the…
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I Have Emptied Out All My Anxieties and Presented Them In A Long Ramble, For The Ease Of My Long Suffering Therapist
I miss being bankrupted by my local cinema for a small popcorn and a milkshake. I miss being alone in the dark, as monsters make chaos on the screen before my eyes, while I imagine an arm around my shoulder and a kiss upon my cheek. I miss being kissed. Kissed by him specifically. The…
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We Did Everything That We Could
His face is full of lines. He says a line, as he frowns, down towards the podium. His voice, meek and mousy “I am deeply sorry.” Not sorry enough to have brushed his hair, of course, because the cringe dad brand comes before all else. Not sorry enough to have halted the brakes on the…
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Third Time’s The Charm
Old paths conquer new, I look back with stormy eyes. I can’t. Not again. Not again, anew, same old pain, wrapped up again. I will, but I can’t.
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Empty Chairs
Empty chairs, kept in the cupboard under the stairs, far away from me, and my solitary celebration. Don’t cry for me, because this ship can’t stand any more tears, dearly departed plans, that never had a chance of staying above icy depths. You know I’m going to drink too much, neat and neurotic, fading from…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 