screaming for you

when we’re on the phone and my voice is racing quickly across the telephone wires through wire through satelites through wire through satelites and you’re hearing me in realtime while i’m seeing what just happened and not paying attention to anything but my voice. and i’m wishing so hard that it would just fucking go away so that you could talk because your voice is so refreshing, like the tapping of the champagne glass to begin a toast at a wedding or ceremony it might be long (i hope so) and some parts may be funny or bittersweet but its so exciting because its the beginning, still i’m tired of starting anew.
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the kids drive on

we might just be emo kids cheering up, p-money. or i start to think this and then we walk farther into our forests and fields we stood up and our knees were dirty and your shoes were still breathing and mine were still squeaking and we couldn’t tell the difference between before and after but something had almost changed between us. then, we sat reflecting on a bench in the breeze. i was thinking i should come here more often because i could write freely and you were thinking about whatever boys think about when there is silence and the girl isn’t putting out (perhaps nothing) so my hand found yours and my other one was playing with this plant that was growing next to the bench that held us. then, i let the plant go and continued to hold your hand, noticing that the plant sprung back into its original place so easily while it was so frail. i don’t spring back like that. and the plants (all of them) were leaning towards the sun. i like the way plants lean, i say. they lean toward the sun, you say. i think people lean, i say. toward what? you ask. i don’t know, whatever, i guess., i say. and i lean my head on your shoulder. you feel warm like the sun.

the differences between what i said and whats happening

i wasn’t sure when i said it
but i said i’d never take you back again
even if you were knocking at my door
with flowers and a face streamed with tears
i wouldn’t do it
because i don’t love you anymore
but you weren’t on my doorstep
you were climbing out of your car
looking beautiful of course, there you were
and my heart skipped a beat
and my eyes smiled as my face did
and maybe for one second i wanted you back.

i felt it just like you did
when you said you wouldn’t love me anymore
and i asked for one last kiss
we kissed and i was convinced that you were gone
and then i told myself that i was better off without you
and i’ve never felt better than when i was with you
so with your arm around me, i accepted it was just friends
and then our hands together and i missed you again
finally when you kissed me it all came crashing down
i want you, i miss you, i love you.

i can’t believe i said i love you
when i was just beginning to think that
maybe i never did
but, i did.

girl:undefined.

i suppose i’m cigarrettes
sometimes camels sometimes marlboro reds
sometimes whatever i can find on the kitchen counter
and i’m ginger ale or coca-cola
i’m sweet or dry and i’m acid
i’m a rainbow-colored fingerpainting on skin
battlewounded from mornings at preschool
and i’ve got curly hair with strands whose haircolor i don’t remember
i’m just torn up a little on the inside
like maybe there are foreign or domestic wars
between my heart and and my head
and you and my hands, i’m not sure
i’m just some sort of girl

only in dreams

you were mumbling about goodbyes
to someone else and my ears were listening closely
because even if you think you sound dumb when you talk,
i like you’re voice
and then your hand was lacing through my fingers

and i was wondering what changed to spark such a public display
even questioning, i turned to follow you
and when we reached the bottom of the red-rubber staircase
i looked up and watched a sea of debators reaching the top stair
and you turned me to look at you

you pulled me closer than i have been to you
while not being forced to look away due to the general nature of hugging
until suddenly someone turned to look at me looking at you
you remembered we’re two girls

and thats strange

so before my lips could kiss it
you bit your bottom lip and looked away
and i looked down at my feet that were less than willing to walk away
you were mumbling something about we would,
we’d find a way
but i was starting to not believe you until you sqeezed my hand a little and it was okay
and when im with you i’m okay.

rush

in one expanded — sentence i’ll explain to you, just sit tight and listen, but you’ll know by the end i promise you’ll understand how you worked your way under my fingernails like dirt and i fell for you in one — thought i let myself want you, you see you were standing there not in the light, and then in the light and you were sort of jumping back and forth and talking rather quickly being bitter while i was bitter about you and what your victories had meant to my record but the shadows accented your face in the dark, and the sun made your eyes and hair sparkle in the light, and my heart in all of its pitterpattering thoughts jumped, just a little, from the light to the dark and i liked you but its still to be continued… in another sentence somewhere… somewhere in a crowded room, i was with you, and you were there but i didn’t think you were with me quite perhaps because we were pretending to be enemies and things were weird then because we were our best friends there and thus passing notes like well, two allies might, or girlfriends might and taking hugs from each other like they were the most necessary thing to an enemy foil keeping you close seemed so natural that i kept myself wondering about you and where you might be for the rest of the day, looking forward to your face in the light and then come to find out you like me, but that too was later… in a new sentence… you were not there this time but we had a mutual friend to take care of the hard part and then i knew and i was elated and jumping and smiling and wondering why i had wasted uppers on what was turning out to be a good day but nothing, nothing, nothing could have been better until we were talking all the time and we were so close to each other that i i wanted to be closer to you and now i get to be hopefully soon, in another sintence.

i (blank) you

i may be impulsive
but its working out just fine
i’m still a poet
even if you’re not my reader

when the wine lingers on your lips
for too long you say harsh words
that linger in my ears
for too long.

you said my writing wasn’t good,
maybe its not
but neither
is your parenting.

i fucking hate you.

i want this to be beautiful,
to let you know you’re ugly.

my favorite photograph

i got my pictures back today
theres one of you
that you were not prepared
for me to take
and by stealing that little piece of you
to put inside my camera
and later hang on my wall
i made my new favorite photograph
of you, of you, of you

and you are about to touch your face
to hide from my capturing?
but i’m quicker than that
and your eyelashes are fluttering
your lips about to move
and your hair falling in straight, orderly disarray
whenever i look at it, really

i’ll think i want you
your lips to touch mine
your hand reaching for my face
your hair falling around me
and if you say no,
you’re still my favorite photograph

missing you

spin your webs of words for me. your tripping words that flow so well together (i could never immitate). i fall in love inside of your letters, sometimes with you and sometimes with someone else but its love. while your roadways are turning into rivers and your realities into dreams i’m getting lost, deeper and deeper inside of you. who writes a new beat and crafts my love so strongly toward this, my living breathing, pre-addicted kerouac. you leave me longing for something more.

come find me pouring over your sentiments, here in nowhere. please please please. i’ll never stop loving you again.

dead at seventeen

i think last week
my head hit the pillow
my top eyelids slammed into my bottom eyelids
and the weight of the world just crashed me down
i need to cry,
let it all out baby its okay
but nothing hurts bad enough
so i’ll just bleed it all out.
i’m sorry.
but i’m gone, dead at seventeen
survived by no children
and nothing identifiable went wrong
maybe it was a broken heart
or maybe it was one sealed up so tight
that nothing,
not even me not even living
got out.