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maybe now
it will be easier to
stop
feeling
like a mechanical failure, cables
tangled up everywhere until they cover my field of vision
and i have to try and untie them but it's
so much easier to use the scissors.
the moment
before i fall asleep i try to think
of it as art but it doesn't change anything, i have put myself
in a tiny shoe box and
i shouldn't be surprised to run out out of oxygen,
so i try to revel in it,
make myself blind to avoid conflict.
it gnaws into me like guilt and it isn't really alive but
i feel like it is draining me and i can't see it as anything but
slowly being pulverized.
i want to look away but this time i don't.
it will be easier to
stop
feeling
like a mechanical failure, cables
tangled up everywhere until they cover my field of vision
and i have to try and untie them but it's
so much easier to use the scissors.
the moment
before i fall asleep i try to think
of it as art but it doesn't change anything, i have put myself
in a tiny shoe box and
i shouldn't be surprised to run out out of oxygen,
so i try to revel in it,
make myself blind to avoid conflict.
it gnaws into me like guilt and it isn't really alive but
i feel like it is draining me and i can't see it as anything but
slowly being pulverized.
i want to look away but this time i don't.
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snowglobe
we hoped it would get bad enough to break glass
that one of our voices
would find the note
to split the window
make a neighbour call the cops
that the dishes would shatter
into too many pieces
to be picked off the floor
we wanted glass in our heels
a trickle of heat
a flicker of colour
in the sun-blank snow
the pines leaned on our doorframe
we waited for them
to pressure in and unfurl
shower our stunned faces
in a rain of needles
knock the teapot off the table
in a blossom of shards
but the trees stood by
evergreen and identical
the same dream of pine repeating
behind yellowing plastic
we painted shut the door
with smi
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notesleep
playing my emphases like harp strings
your voice smokes thru the oaken bramble
pour a carbonated apology, a sun-stained
mile marked envelope, two ill-fitted birds,
hands small holes right before a rush of river
what it feels like being swallowed from the outside
crushing rings into truth serum, pretend
to be out of tune with that deception
I have been unable to parse my own persona
a pink cotton voice I remember thru the phone
I remember because it formed me into a granary
one crop after another of patriarchal idioms
whisper my secrets so softly into a glint of red hair
a saucer-eyed lace pattern cut into pine paper
I practice radical self lo
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waterproof
sea foam regrets
wash this lacerated heart
with saline baptisms
of undying love
(and etch their
wretched revelations
on mausoleum walls).
your ancient ruins
still stand undefeated
by impudent waves
(like overexposed
polaroids showcased in
empty exhibitions).
and it's futile
exorcising
my heart of
your remnants
(because all
graveyards need
ghosts to
haunt them).
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just trying to put my anxiety into words and images that are more tangible. i always have difficulty describing it.
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and i have to try and untie them but it's
so much easier to use the scissors.
Mmm. Powerful.
so much easier to use the scissors.
Mmm. Powerful.