Moral Desert
Laura Jensen’s blog is called
spice drawer mouse and her avi
is a selfie with her flip phone
I long for this Game Boy
Advance SP energy renewable
battery pak no one start yet
damn I still have all these CDRs
left even though I used
like 40 to burn everything I had
by Lil Wayne for a stupid
reason at least I gave them
away no one need know
about the hours I spent
nor that this act was just
a placebo for the music
I wanted to burn and give
to you instead your whole face
your body on the roof with me
your mouth full of ropes
Theory of Suicide
I finger the airlock switch like
It’s a small, inconsequential thing
Life is way harder than reading
Wikipedia pages for trees
I watch porn on my phone instead
Of dancing and feel bad about it
It is funny and complicated
To be a window into grief
I have done almost nothing
All week and the sunrise is imminent
Hey let me borrow your shirt
The universe is about to begin
Psychometrician, Among The Flowers
I expect the love to end
Because instead of looking
At you I’m looking down
At the gladioli wondering
How they got so tall
And look so strong like
Two to five feet of
Worry + water isn’t nothing
Their riot of colors how
They flower every year if
Treated well if you got
Sick I don’t know what I’d
Do become a casualty
Of morning wash my hair
In secret I owe so much
Debt to your heartbeat’s
Chamber music arr. a
Mother with love from a
Piano piece that’s less
Well known now the tune
A warm memory when
You hear its new timbre
You become aware
Of a debt hand in the
River testing the water
In the dream I fall off the
Horse instead of talking
To the Dutch boy so you’ll
Be happy the pictures
I take will come out well
Terza rima will be re-
Instated starting now and
The belt you buckled
Round my throat’ll tighten
Like a shot of the lake
Moored boats like grave
Stones standing at
Attention walking on water
We need not rehearse
These debts recorded in
Pictures in the ledger
Of life a box somewhere
Unopened for years
Not hiding a secret but
Not not hiding it either
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