One question that I ask while I keep my eyes forward,
Hyper focused on the movement of my feet.
My focus is on the street,
But also on the way that it feels when she brushes against my cheek.
I’d give my whole self to you,
Flesh, skin, and pit.
I’d give my whole self to you,
Flesh, skin, and pit.
I don’t want to be asleep,
But man, I don’t want to be awake.
Sometimes I don’t want to be alive, and here’s that question:
Who fell into who?
Whatever layers of abstraction
And self mythologizing I can use
To make you fall for my surrogate ego.
Whatever signs we both choose not to read.
I can taste the feeling in my mouth.
I can feel the buzzing in my brain.
I think.
I try to think.
I think I’m going quite insane.
I’d give my whole self to you,
Flesh, skin, and pit.
I’d give my whole self to you,
Flesh, skin, and pit.
I fell asleep, I think, on the banks of the stream.
And there, I think, I had the loveliest dream.
I love the way you look underneath the tattered clouds,
And in the dream, I think, I spoke the things I’d never say out loud:
All of this in the stomach drop, panic monsoon,
Your busted heart just spent all night screaming at the moon,
In her reflection against the water against an overcast sky,
In the disappearing memory of the twinkling of an eye.
I memorized your face on the day we met:
Stones sinking in the water of the Willamette.
I thought that could be me if you’d just let me go.
That could be me if you’d just let me go.
You have five days left but you’ve got 30 mistakes.
Four day empty stomach plus a few strong drinks is all it takes.
We’re both fucked up. She’s great. She’s ginger peachy.
Why am I always feeling so guilty?
Why can’t this one perfect second of a dream be enough to get me through whatever’s left of my life?
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