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Sex & Love Letters

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feel

an appetite for longing as the starving belong and surviving the song is all that he can see it's...

home

the years of stars and gods a kid wondering too much wandering too far all these years fears and...

experiences

art speaks when language can’t carry the experience.

scream

no need to scream at the wind just create and scream the artists know this they sing for you, just...

after the fire

my hands tremble as i stand invisible but not divisible this room, you left me empty in i won't call...

and still the light came in

and still the light came in the sink was full the fruit had flies and the cat didn’t come back but...

cicadas

those aren't cicadas you're hearing it's the snaps of synapse dreary, I know take heart, it will...

cry kitten roar

i see your sweat and your flex everytime you hear my name i used to give you goosebumps now you'd...

curtain close

its cozy in here with the curtains closed i know what's outside but the weather's bad and you seem...

delorean

i know it's disliked when i write like this you just want me to speak my shit but this is my truth...

dog

the static pops, leaves a crackle in my ear whacked splitting piercing thunder lightning mood...

economically

you wear your hair like a pet on your shoulder, left where i want to hold you but we're not there...

even in hell

forget armageddon it's in between hell and earth where there is heaven just a piece, sure but it's...

fingertips at my throat

fingertips at my throat press, release not enough to choke just enough to remind me i’m real his...

i kiss you

no i see your proposal for peace and i reject it wisely i want to accept because i love your...

i met the god inside me and she was not kind

i met the god inside me and she was not kind she did not whisper she screamed she threw my name back...

miss you

hey baby, just texting to say that was one hell of a kiss. a wish, really. that you didn’t have to...

not like this

where did respect leave my pen when my lips paid you disservice and i left with the curses this...

reckoning

He longs to draw the contours of your face Not in portrait and structure, But the way you look at...

safely leave

safely leave i never intended pain selfish narcissist, i am accused just abused mostly self tired...

scorned

you do not get to call me now with your ash-laced tongue and trembling hands and think I will forget...

she lives here

she lives here not in light not in language not in healing she lives beneath the part of me that...

signal noise

this wicked silence within echo chambers splitting open my ears deafening my heart and suffocating...

suicide

the problem with suicide is that it devalues life and when you devalue life you make life worth less...

tabs

tabs i google venlafaxine, clobazam codeine splashed with fentanyl if i can get or use what i have...

teeth (part 1)

i’ve stitched gold thread into the edges of every wound just to keep walking. without it, the world...

teeth (part 2)

i still sleep on one side criminalized by where our space once was the sheets forget faster than i...

the small of your back

the small of your back the nape of your neck when you tuck your hair behind your ears or when your...

to the one who never touched me

to the one who never touched me you never held me not really but i carry you in the static between...

unsent

I am embarrassed of myself. I can almost hear your protest at that. Much of how I have survived has...

what remains

i won’t touch it but i won’t bury it either this feeling rose quiet and uninvited like breath on...

what we don't say

what we don't say you sit across from me your legs folded like apology your hands restless like...

when i could not speak

when i could not speak and you said "i feel it too"

wrapped

you were lying in my arms asleep and dreaming your toes curling my mind whirling i remember thinking...

yesterday

a bark from a caracal, somewhere off to the left not quite near, but too close to ignore and a tree...