Category: Poetry

  • Some melodrama does not change

    Some melodrama does not change

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    You cannot sleep without wet matchesYou cannot speak without candle waxYou cannot mirror without a bright flameYou cannot love me without firewalking You allowed me to burn the past too desperatelyeven though I am down to coals You removed the pans quietly and scraped me up so slowlyeven though I am down to coals You…

  • debt

    you owe a debt of love to everyone, even the nameless beings who wake at dawn to facilitate clean, endless water. You can pay it back, or agree to suffer a perforated solitude.

  • Be a fucking man about it

    Regardless of anything you hear  You remain a man  And in your ears you hear the words  We must test you to limits to see how much we must love you But how many do you know  Who have not bent but broken  are dead with no history  You know the names the moment I…