Sunday, November 29, 2009

psyhike

almost there
you said, we've got a 
lot of things to talk about before we 
make it home
and then you walked 

onward

and eventually I did
also, but 
I must've stood there for an 
hour before I could scrounge together
bits and pieces 
of your body and 
find beauty in it's creases 
and where your neck meets
your shoulders

Surrounded by a thousand boulders, 
yet- 

not one as jagged as you. 

so it doesn't stick

after you let 
the bad feelings get you 
down the 
good will only seem 
farther 
away,

so when it's happening-

pretend it isn't.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

I want to be kind of
alone in a big room
with you

enormous curtains and
flowers, blooming
constantly

i'll play dylan, you can
change it
if you want to

I'll still sing

it ain't me, babe
no, no, no,
it ain't me, babe

and they will talk about us when it's over
and we're at some dinner party
course we said it'd last forever

and our eyes will say

listen, papa the pasta's cold
Oh no , lil mama, I know, I'm old
and I can't make it better

and dylan
he keeps singing & he just keeps on singing in my ears & I hope he never stops
babe


Thursday, November 19, 2009

we've all got a name

Seeing the same faces every day 
even when I stay inside 
grey walls

and not hiding anything I look out 
one of three windows 
with the shades drawn and I am imagining 
clouds inside; 
hovering up at the ceiling like small children with secrets

I play my guitar with a love that I found a few years ago 
in my old closet
in my old room 
at my parents house- 
made me feel new

and there is a girl in one of my classes 
made by watercolors and she would 
probably be a lot of fun to 
lay with on those 
old hardwood floors

but we barely ever use the front door anymore.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

california

play breathing is deadly
and oddly enough 
I'm not bound 

to you. 

on the inner state in the seat behind the passenger seat looking out the window 
such a blank spot to be thinking about the places that you aren't that's what I do 

that's what I do. 

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

what I did see today

places 
that I find myself, lately
consisting of things like
my couch with a little to eat and 
eyes bigger than my stomach can be
it hurts to feel large blocks of hard and solid joy for too long and some  
boy of mine, runs 
outlines my ears and I meet him 
where my jaw meets my neck, last time I cried those tears, he 
took them back, said there
there, and on the bus ride away from a bigger bed than mine, and 
rushing past street signs, five past nine, morning
time, never waiting for 
anything, hate his smile
I can't
and she is where she is she is some delicate featured kind boned and quiet soul ready to light flames to her past, I know
we all, are
going 
places.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

penny said ariel

 thought that the mess was an illusion we created just to 
 pick up the pieces because there hadn't been anything to 
 keep us happy together after six days of nothing but sun 
 now the mood rustles across us like tumbleweeds in an
 abandoned city and aching for a resuscitation that won't
ever save us sad and lonely we've had the only thing that
matters enough to want it back so don't come here with
tears in your beautiful eyes because the distance inside
makes these bones feel heavy and I can't carry them a r
o u n d like this much longer.