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Let Me Be Your Drug, Darling
Darling, what have you done? I have no right to, but, I wish you got high less. You took a gamble with the guy I loved, sending him round the roulette wheel, ribs and pretty face, broken by the blades of your bad habits, while I sit on your steps, smoking all your cigarettes, singing…
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Boys Who Like Playing With Cats
There are four years between us, but you remark that some days, (which feel like months), it feels like four hundred, as you lay, four inches from me, in a single bed, containing two singles, stupidly supposing that nothing suspicious will occur. I am listening to subliminals, through earphones, turned down low, so I can…
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Indeed I Do
It doesn’t matter, where in the world I venture, how many names I perfectly print, before scribbling out, until the page is as black as the night. I will always find my way back to you, because your name is written on every inch of my soul, and I am a seasick sweetheart, saying the…
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I’m Your Boyfriend Now, Nancy
It’s midnight, and I’m wearily awake, because you are invading, infringing on my dreams, stalking me as I sleep. You have a sweet smile, as you do it, we’re in your car, or under the pier, and you are holding my hand, like you’re in love with me, taking my lips, with yours, as if…
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Siren Sailor
I leapt into your legs, making them saunter off a cliff, into the unsuspecting sea, so you could be at peace, with the wailing waves, and out of my head, far away, where I could not reach. I bathed in my bed, drowning in a drought of you, crying out things I didn’t know I…