The devil’s in my midst.

While you were gone, My childhood dog died. I wept for both of you, And I felt like a corpse. While you were gone,

With him, It’s like there were no scars. There are no sheepish looks No burning shame. There was no John

You know, I miss you both Like I miss my childhood blanket That I wonder idly about.

I can’t cease to think about him. His bitter way only warms my heart… He frightens me and excites me. He always heightens my senses. He makes my heart hurt.

Your love Was like driving straight into the… Your attention was like Lying in a puddle of gold. You were sex and fun and cotton ca…

The stars belong to both the sun And the moon Just as my heart does belong to yo… You may not see me, but I’ll be there.

Love starts like this: We like the same books, We like the same music, We seem like a match made in high… It crumbles like this:

I find no release. I die. I die, Yet I’m not free. Not 'til I die.

She looked like innocence And felt like sin And died like grace And fell like a bird And fell like a bird

You don’t ask me to speak. You never expect my opinion. I was your second child In a runaway marriage. I suppose I loved you once,

I’ve been waiting For years And days And all the seconds For a warm body.

Can you hear it? It is the cry of the poor. Their howling curls inside of my h… It pains me as if I were one of t… But, I am.