(sad bath)
(sad bath)
sometimes i just want to take a
sad bath
in a windowless room
no lights, no flickering candles
(sugar scrub)
(sugar scrub)
I exfoliated again today
sloughed off a layer of dead
s k i n
and I am learning
(bookmark)
(bookmark)
after you died
I bought a notebook
and began to write your story
our story
the beginning
when we
(guidance)
(guidance)
when I die
there better be some version of
Afterlife Google Maps
because I'm hightailing it
to
(ownership)
(ownership)
the question written on the form had me gutted:
“do you own any pets?”
an unintentional stab of the
(flowers)
(flowers)
part i
you sent me flowers
and the gesture was kind
but soon they’ll die
and if you
(waltzing with water)
(waltzing with water)
I love
to sit by a
window and
stare at the rain out
there beyond the
glass
(lightning season)
(lightning season)
It’s lightning season
inside of me
I feel the static
electricity,
the buzzing, roaring
inside my chest,
(thank art)
I have been depressed. For a long time now. And it ebbs and flows and I mostly know how to
(questions)
(questions)
Life is as wonderfully confusing
as answering “yes” to the question asking,
“this or that?”
Life is as infinitely