traditional (more so) haiku
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I’m not a side dish, I’m not a left—over, you can’t put me away, you can’t save me for later, as with all things,
It feels much less like a kick in… but a slap in the face, I would say ‘fuck it’, but it wouldn’t adequately represe… that was lacked in,
You never loved me, Only the taste of my name, As it lingered on your slithering… Falling out, dripping, With poisons of promises,
Stumbling over words, Like a child stumbles over shoe la… Left undone. Every word I want to say, Left undone.
No implications, Did I notice at the time, Only the key strokes.
Whenever I’m alone, I stay smiling, Counting the stitches sewn, On 100 thread count sheets, Wishing for rain,
“You’re trapped.” He explains, My body is bare, I’m losing time, And losing air.
She melds into the rhythm, listening for a heartbeat, escaping into the fumes, her thoughts incomplete. She escaped through the cracks,
‘I’ am the lifeless infinite. ‘I’ am the sun, perforating throug… ‘I’ am a strawberry moon. But what is I?
I can’t say I know, The bed where you lay, The shape, color, and patterns, That makes up your day, I can only say now,
Can I just have slow sex, Long talks, Lengthy poems, And everyday walks.... Can I have running through the wo…
Tried to meditate, too many different people, are inside my head.
I’m always enamored with, Short periods of time, With fantasies of, Your hand in mine.
Carefully and slowly, I unfold myself from inside, Dark and lowly, I swallow my pride, I let her out,
under florescents, the cigarette butts are like confe… glittering the sidewalk, with anxiety.