whoa oh, I want some more.

my heart swells in so many places it hurts to breathe sometimes

but I remember in certain sweaters I look the best and all is well in a land of snow.

I didn't get what I wanted, and it's fine, oh it's fine.

maybe some other time.

story morning glory.

"Don't go chasing dreams, kid," he said to me, as my skin stuck to his leather seats.

When all the smart kids moved north for the winter, all the cokeheads stayed in Hollywood. It was a good night, I guess. I wore the same jeans over and over again, rough against my skin, and I fell into quarter beats as the men on city streets asked me pointless questions.

And will you ever grow old? I don't know.

And will you ride headlong into the desert sky? I don't know.

And will you ever tell us his name, the one you write about in every song? That's no for sure.

It all rested in ragtag blues. They stitched wings into breakable girls as women trailed me like clockwork. Tick, tock, they all fell in love but no one really meant it. It was all for that last bit of white before lights out.

"But they look so good on me," I said to him, as his glance gave me the up-down in my peripherals.

Silver was my favorite non-color to wear. It made me look more serious than the articles painted -- this painted woman-child with bangles for common sense. I giggled and denied marriage, noting tasteful shoes and dismissing showboats in polyester. I was silver like the moon, a supporting hue in the cast of purist to wise. And he was merely charcoal grey, almost there but never quite good enough.

Different women want to be me but few can compare.

Different men want to be me but few can compare.

I am neither, I am both, but who is there to compare?

Present past spoken in future tense, but what else do I know if I'm not drunk with some sort of expensive alcohol someone else bought me? I asked myself these convoluted questions night after night, longing for the chafe of stubble on my cheeks and met with silky smooth aftershave from the baby boys who ran around in big tough guy clothes. Yeah, real tough guy now.

"Suspicion got me this scar," you said, pointing at your jaw, the place that made me ache something awful, for that mouth of yours between my legs doing something, for fuck's sake.

We drove along and alone, the throb of want everlasting as you dragged out my torture with seeming bliss, just with a turn and a smile every once in a while.  and even when desert became ice, when texas became rome, when all the words melted in my pocket with the accuracy of throwing darts, I knew somehow this would be the only time in my life that I would be truly happy.  

something more.

three years and I'm back to where I was

terminal port and sloppy sustenance

who ever knew my fingers would glide against worn keys

it's been so long since I've been myself.

it shows, and it shows, and it shows

isn't it funny how I waste my time searching for something more?

and rediscovering my older tricks haven't worked and there's no cure

trying so hard to bypass time, ignoring the fact that I must die

maybe there's nothing left for me to find

unfocused.

we're in this place now, where i can't compartmentalize in the way that i used to.
you were the unrequited duo, one spelling out her longings while the other made cryptic allusions.  and i bought it.  we all buy it, you know, or at least i hope the both of you know.  i don't know if i ever will.  
now she wants people and specific people and forgive me my dear i'm sure you'll understand but that's really really difficult for me to wrap my head around.  am i coming in clear?

and it's not selfishness.  after her, i can't like another girl again.  it hurts too fucking much.  it's just bizarre.  give me time, i guess.  just time enough to think it over.  i cried that night for the letting go of everything i'd been holding onto.  it was great.  but now i'm stuck in the ether and what the fuck is it going to bring?  i don't know and that terrifies me.

and you go about.

you live your life. I live mine.

Yet somehow there's still this gaping hole feeling in my gut

and I find it hard to breathe without tears.

can't a girl joke back, however wrong the term is?

you really do take things seriously, the density of weighted words.

I don't know what to do with you.

I don't know what to do with myself on days like this.

all I really want is to run and scream until I spit blood.

because that's all I am, all the time, just bursting with feelings

so many things to say and so much emotion to spare.

if you want some, you can have it.  open here, take as you need, just leave enough so I can tell my mother I love her and mean it.  

itching fingers.

I want to write.
I want to write.
but something always holds me back
perhaps I don't have the curve of your neck memorized perfectly...

it's always something like that.

I need my obsession for my creation. I need the knowledge I really shouldn't have.isn't it funny how we have all these tools at our disposal? and we feel an expansion of lungs.

I don't need love.  It's a waste of my time.
But I'm jealous of those who can throw down and hook up
Not waste their time daydreaming of dogs and houses and tree lined streets.

Antithesis.  Clothes slipped on just to be tossed off.
Too sheer, doesn't cling to the figure enough
Yet you are who you are and I am jealous of this.

I am more lines than I ever knew possible, and at the time I could never want them.

"I love you and everything is beautiful."

[It hasn't been this bad since her.]

scruff. it's funny how much I like it.
you should shave, really, because it's homely
but come to think of it, it's so... you
I could wrestle with self doubt and say hello, how are you, how was your weekend
but my tongue forever exists in knots
and I feel the dryness in my throat before I can even get the words out
so I stop. because you're perfect. and I can't deny that.

okay, so no one is perfect. I lied in that respect.
but I'm torn between assumptions and resignations.
would you be interested? do you stare at younger men with longing?
it gets me hot under the collar and cold in my stomach, jealous and pleased.
I always get like this, reduced to this, because of my self doubt.
and you are none the wiser, self regarded oblivion as I hang on your every mistake

bitch, show me your body.

I still feel your face, against hands that have
never graced you. you burn
patterns in my cheeks, my twisted spine and
shirt collar white, contrasted with black
and I don't know you. and I don't know
you, with shadow tickling my palms and
feeling smoke fill my lungs, imaginary
seeing your static and unkempt, stupid stupid hair
(jesus christ do you ever wash it but that's cute)
(seriousness in clover and dust smoke, bicycles and
bags from other bags, from jeans frayed and torn with
same shirts with holes but I've grown to smile)

asides aside, you were never one to question but
how would I know that I just
assume, assume and remove myself from situations
imaginary, brutal, intensity soft and slow like piano keys
against my callused fingers, out of practice out of line
barre chords and nylon instead, uselessness
and kitsch, I'm eclipsing, something I despised but
would you like that. you wouldn't I guess, you
wouldn't. I guess. I don't know you. I don't
know you. imaginary, acerbic with shining dark
eyes, turbulent ocean and icy sky clash for fleeting moments
you ask me to repeat things and I comply, wanting you to
be satisfied with stripes. jeans with frays and tears, same
shirts, black with white.

blank.

filling in spaces, but of course.

i want.

something to make sense.

to not feel tension gripping at my throat, squeezing and slipping, kneading me.

to say hello.

to not feel like a fool, like I'm fat, like I don't deserve anything.

red.

I study your worry lines in peripherals
and try not to think about the times I've wanted your hands on me.
I feel as though it's been years, years and years
yet seconds since you last looked into my eyes.
jumping to conclusions just so you can find my glance.

our fingertips touched and there were no sparks
no quickened heartbeats, just a pressure from both ends.
it wasn't just me. I know it wasn't just me.

I feel so raw whenever you move the slightest inch
yet I'm not sure if I want to know you
because I understand I'll just be disappointed.

sinking feeling.

but no, no it's not that

i'm just lonely is all

and that's okay.

honestly, I'm only broken wings and cockle shells.

what I miss.

my ability to observe and act.

my tact and sense of timing.

a two step toward you.

goals.

not wanting anyone this bad.

where did all the chastity go?

strangely strange.

I'm bested by the pretty girl everyfuckingtime and while I say, yeah yeah it doesn't hurt, of course it's going to.  but I've gotta wear that smile because she deserves a nice boy.  she's my sister and I love her to no no no end.  and there are some things that aren't for me, but hell do I want them.

something one day will be reciprocal.  I just think I'll be alone for the rest of my life.  it's fine.  I'm just in the downness stage, yeah, but is there an up?  really now?  I don't know.  I fucking hate cycling, I fucking hate them.

ah well.  changing moods midstream.  college today.  couldn't be happier about that! :D

well yes but there's also that

one day I know I won't fault myself for loving you once

I feigned distance but now there is the real kind, distance from my emotions, and I can remember them fondly, letting go, throwing my head and hair back as I swung back and forth, back and forth, up and down, sun contorting my face into boys that weren't me and faces I hadn't even known yet

I think fondly and want that freedom back, that stupid reckless love
and now I talk to you like I don't know you even though I have for years and years now
I'm shut off from talking about it, I've talked enough but to myself I can talk about it always always never

it's an ache, all at once dull in my chest and sharp in my face, my eyes, my throat. I am too tired for all of this really. my wrists burn from wires and static heat. and I'd like to not feel like this, to not be in my head thinking and growing old with fear and feebleness, blooming in me like a cancer. do you even know me? do you even measure the distance with squinted eyes and pinched nerves, steady hands and a tilt of your head? no, no, I don't think so.

refreshed and refreshed and refreshed till I'm cramped, so solid, you're solid and I fell too hard too fast, never ever again do I want this at all, no never no never never

I don't feel right in these sheets, in this chair, in this skin until there's no fat at all. I don't care if I kill myself. I don't care, I don't. It's okay because I will finally be perfect, and everything you never wanted in a girl. I am doing this because I can. There is no other choice than to trust me. feel it in you to trust me love just this once now. and how now. I'll never say my love aloud.

null

but of course

yeah, I'm scared, what's it to you

i woke up from a dream involving him. i was at a restaurant with him and we were talking. i told him how i've been feeling lately, my identity crisis and all. we were in this dome like structure. he misinterpreted my words into a want for sexual contact with him, so the dome spun around. He started having sex with me and I kept giving him these half-assed nos, hoping he would get the point. it cut to me on a train. the train had no destination. i was the only passenger besides a homeless man sleeping in the corner of his seat.  

i don't know what it means but i just don't want it to ever happen.  at least not like that. 

another night without much sleep

i still think of you sometimes
but i'm not sure if it's in that way
would you want it? i don't know.

words hurt, they sting like nothing else, but I eventually have to let go. and it's getting easier certainly. there are still hurdles that i'm avoiding. am i giving it a go? i know others aren't. i get angry because you fell for the wrong fucking person. i don't want to be angry at you. i want this to be over.

who am i kidding, i'm a terrible selfish person, possessive, needy, almost always nauseous.

i need to occupy myself with something, but i must wait till it all ends, till this hour is up before i can even do a single thing. i'm lonely but it's fine. i just feel like i'm being punished for honesty. it's cool (but not really).

someday I'll appreciate sunlight.

do you see me? do you see what I've become? a shell of my former self (if I even had one)

last night my breathing was quick and unsteady as I felt every bit of paranoia sink in. I thought about cutting myself on my lower back until I was eased into sleep. the fact that I get comfort from the idea of bringing myself pain is... interesting to say the least. I'm not sure if I'm scared or frustrated. I thought of my boy, my bright eyed country boy and smiled. we'll lay in the grass together. maybe there will be sex, maybe there will be just be us together, existing. whatever the case may be I welcome it.

I'm changing. I'm back on my medication. I need consistency. It will be difficult. I can do this and get through it.

and the poetry may be gone, yes, but it'll return. I can't be coherent for more than an hour at a time.

thoughts on a sleepless night.

once upon a time I wanted things I couldn't have
and once upon once upon everything there was something
I recall days were spent dreaming away circumstance
and there's always this tune in my head, I mimic yours

I'm all over, I'm not over you, with everyone expecting me to
be someone I'm not, be the rhythm that carries you through
I'm sick of promises not kept and words unsaid, of comfort zones
and you wishing that I was her while I'm here on my own

throw me something I can comprehend, anything you send my way
I'm sure I can decipher, you're my last thread to a normal world
where my ears don't ring and my heart doesn't sink every time
they look past me to check for someone else

all that's left is me waiting by the telephone, I'm out and about
strung out on words that could be said as I listen to chatter-laughter
for those ten minutes I feel like I'm home until you have to go
and there's no way I'm hearing back from you again till I remind you

that I still exist
that I'm still yours
that we made an agreement
that I'm a different person

I know what you are to me but what have I ever been to you?
there's no such thing as both ways and I can fight all by myself
as tides change and cars rush by, I want to belong to you
and have you be my very own to look after at least for a while

but you belong to a girl long gone, your well wishes replaced
with harsh orders and gunshots, with boots and never knowing the time
will you go with what she says, although she wishes to wake up alone
halfway across the world, where you have never been and may never go?

I wish you could stay with me and feel my constancy, my soft words
though our love is young, I know we can make it through the distance
in miles, in time, in your voice, in your eyes when you look past me
like so many other people have done before you and some will do after