I am screaming in my own little box,
but you don't talk to me.
I am giving it to you raw,
but you don't feed it to yourself.
What can it take
for everyone to see what I am giving.
Charitable preitess,
with her hands outsrecthed and he head ready to fall.
I will nourish your brain stems and
let you have it all.
Those small secrets that
the world has yet to answer.
Slip it into your ear
and scrape my knuckles along your palm.
I feed it to you,
hand it to you raw.
Swimming in and out of focus.
You are a haze within a emblem of desire.
Capture a few hearts and crush them between your
finger and thumb.
You smoke spice with a smile on your face
with your hands sliding up the neck of your finder pads of fingers crush against its strings.
They strum like drums in my ears
pollute my innocence and tell me to relax my muscles
and hang my skin on the coat rack to dry in the summer sun.
My body is chill,
where my mind settles is a place between the summerlands and ghost towns of the
far away west.
I'm shelter there as my sighs form smoke rings around my crown like halos.
I am at peace
with your forthcoming melodies.
He liked the pitter-patter of life among the lake-
Watched the geese bend down slender necks
and let the bread slide down to their belly's.
His face resembled crinkled newspaper from the
1960's.
and he always wore the same musk,
so they'd remember his scent and come back for scraps.
His fingers were strong and creased, the skin
stretched too tight over the knuckles
Left to hang lazily above his palms.
When the sun rose he gave it silent hello's and gentle goodbyes as his bench grew lonely.
One hand in the paper bag keeping loud friends close by.
His eyes were a steady blue.
lashes sturdy like a boat on grey-blue waves
that tussled and beamed when the crumbs disapapted from the ground.
His smile was stern however, always lost in
long ago thoughts.
I always wanted to say something when it reached my gaze.
But I never did.
My feet are drugged into
submission with the ground
and I walk until they bled.
For days,
a red line wrung out into desert soil,
swirled and spun until the sun met the cracks
in between the dust.
They met with hushed bellows and smooth sighs,
collided and fell dead silent-
My arms stayed limp
and my eyes never met the waves and heat
that split my skin in halves.
I walked on
to meet what wonders I have not faced yet.
I climbed the hills and crags,
swam until the throat burned in the water-less
sand.
I drank when there was nothing,
but the blood from my soles
and sweat of my brow.
A nomad,
forever a Wonder'er in a plain of forgotten
thoughts.
When your muscles contracted
with every short breath.
I watched and my mouth fell open with folds.
You would squeeze your fingers into small fists,
and stare ahead.
Those fingers that once plucked piano keys,
shot into my jaw and sent me reeling on my back-
I couldn't help but let the air
escape and fly from my lungs.
You played a symphony on my ribs,
b flat and c sharp
along my sides
and throat.
You placed me on your teeth and chewed me into coffee grinds
until my tears stained your shirt and you'd wipe
me away with a napkin.
I never said a word,
when those fragile fingers used me as the instrument.
I never said a word
as you withered away and your voice died down behind the hills we'd climb behind.
I only said goodbye,
when you left and never came back.
Today I've discovered the
weakness of my bones-
The impact of pressure when someone squeezes,
it crumbles in their palm
and they mix it in the dirt.
Today I am pure,
flavored in my own skin
and dirty in my mind.
Like a bitter piece of candy left over in
a doctor office dish...
I am the bad and the good one.
Today I'm both and I yell
and scream for something
i know I'll never understand.
Today I am just a kid,
flipping records and cookie cutter thoughts.
and tomorrow I'll wake up in the morning
and think myself
women.
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