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Blue-grey smoke holds allure Against the black Married in seamless perfection To my Cuban tobacco tongue Window down, system up Pulse pounds past giving a fuck Moonlight licking shore like Aromatic lips Each heart pluck a steel string Diamond diffusion Through broken tears   Necrotic muscle sends Septic plasma round Highways & byways Beneath mayonnaise […]

Skin

I can’t love anyone. I can’t trust anyone. I’m socially anxious and awkward. I’m reclusive. I haven’t been able to work for over eight months. I have nightmares every other night. Searching fruitlessly behind cold blue irises in my dream state, for signs or the expression of depth. I have panic attacks randomly and in […]

Against Our Will

  That mad distemper That strikes both Beggar and King Turning latter into former Over torturous time. Learn to let go Of everything inside. Be done. Being held hostage By the ghost of happiness’ chance Becoming malignant spirit Haunting with nightmares, post-traumatic stress and cognitive dissonance. Can we just skip the ‘getting to know one […]

Darklitude.

I was lonely and miserable With you So, it made eventual sense To be Miserable By myself Sat in the dark, Netflix, my evening companion With a noticeable absense of ‘chill’ But at least I don’t have to cope With your silent disappointment Or disdain any longer Being dragged through cold waters On your stagnating […]

Dead Things

I kid myself I can still feel you. Fingers hovering over the send key, only to tap delete and toss the device away. Alone together in separate darks. Like the small white sharks we have become – sniffing grief from a million miles away. Dead things who nevertheless bleed. Fresh blood, in the salted ocean […]

Now I’m just like you…

I’m angry in my bones. Tainted by your stain and perfumed in your stench. I don’t recognize or understand the grizzled grey face that looks at me with brown cowed eyes. You were forever, to me. The one where one of us eventually dies, only I never expected you to die on me… Didn’t I […]