All right
I’m deleting my tumblr, probably at some point tomorrow, leave your goodbyes. Thanks for the memories. Find me elsewhere.
♬
Mar
21
Family Legacy
I am your cancer
Pushing and gnawing at the flesh
Near your feeble shoulder blade
Sniveling towards mangled cartilage around
Your rotator cuff, rest assured
I intend to find it all in due time
I am your car accident
With promises of angry steel careening you
From concrete to dirt
Filled with hushed tones and hopeful feet
Till I toss you like a rag doll
Into your pioneer paradise
I am your absent pride
Falling asleep at the wheel
As Death winks knowingly,
A sneer that cuts like a scythe
Slicing at the stalks you harbor
While screaming, “You fucking orphan!”
♬
Mar
20
Lilac Wine
I planted a tree in my backyard the first day I met you
In the summers I would sit beneath its shade
And whittle at a peach with the knife my father gave me
I tilled the earth around and made room
For the primroses to bloom in spring
The summer solstice followed us
In moves led by the undulating thwack
Of my sheets left in your parlor
As I shook the dust of my intentions
From the cool left lingering in linen
By sunrise I’ll ride my bicycle to the rock wall
And trace years of erosion beneath my fingers
till the soot collects like sheep led to slaughter
on my tattered white shirt
I’ll sit with lilac wine pressed upon the tree
And watch the leaves burn
-sb
♬
Mar
20
hello mother leopard, I have your cub. You must protect her, but that will be expensive. 10,000 kola nuts wrapped in brown paper, midnight, behind the box. I’ll be the hyena, you’ll see.
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