traditional (more so) haiku
Whenever I’m alone, I stay smiling, Counting the stitches sewn, On 100 thread count sheets, Wishing for rain,
She melds into the rhythm, listening for a heartbeat, escaping into the fumes, her thoughts incomplete. She escaped through the cracks,
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,
‘We’re the same’, Teetering on edges of lines, I ca… And you say again ‘we are the same… Conflating words, Of an honest one,
Can I just have slow sex, Long talks, Lengthy poems, And everyday walks.... Can I have running through the wo…
‘I’ am the lifeless infinite. ‘I’ am the sun, perforating throug… ‘I’ am a strawberry moon. But what is I?
Tried to meditate, too many different people, are inside my head.
Stumbling over words, Like a child stumbles over shoe la… Left undone. Every word I want to say, Left undone.
Carefully and slowly, I unfold myself from inside, Dark and lowly, I swallow my pride, I let her out,
Despite the rips in between the se… I can’t escape my bones, I can’t fight the dreams, So I wait but, I can’t manage to speak,
I feel like I could vomit tears, But that wouldn’t suffice, For amount of years together, Exactly twice, I have no idea...
under florescents, the cigarette butts are like confe… glittering the sidewalk, with anxiety.
Can I just have slow sex, Long talks, Lengthy poems, And everyday walks, Can I have running through the wo…
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,
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,
