lucky dog

 lucky dog 

an abecedarian 

amputate this feeling from my heart, actuality is sweet only if i chase it 

bridge the gap, brick pelting is less building than a love language 

count how many times i’ve looked at the stars since our meeting

don’t tell me none: you wouldn’t know if you tried: the stars are behind you all the time

except when you blink and burst the bubble: we have a problem i think that 

for the sake of our friendship, i better be leaving, i better be going 

get going, i better leave, i should be better


hand my hand and [be]head my intimacy and [be]hold my vulnerability 

increase the volume just a little, little by little we will understand to do this better next time 

just forget about it for now: just look: just can we just be 

kind of like people, the kind of people who just don’t talk about it: kindless kinds of kindness

let me be a liability, lemon white chocolate wafers are falling apart as we speak

maybe if this stupid light wasn’t so dim: maybe we can just go to sleep 

now right now i want to be lying, lying down, lying side to side: never 


okay, never okay 

piece the pops of color in my outfit to trace the secret code i’ve been: being being being 

q-rate the scabs on the sides of my hands and lighten that

rank the kinds of lists i can make and the titles that i’ve been giving away

so easy: and then i realized what the words meant and i swear, swear i could’ve been 


the one to tell you that these letters are strings and kites and tales and 

utopic unions unknown unattached unappointed 

very pointless. this is very pointless, this thing this being this want this desire could

well have been 

x-marks on the map of our living arrangement: the kitchen, let’s talk about it in the kitchen

yes, we never got a kitchen: our dogs will do it but they do it in the language of home:

जरा come with me to the dark room and let’s go to sleep for the rest of this being.


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