You quench your curiosity
You bend her corners
You fill her with your annotations
You find her faults
You even took notes
And yet she let you skim through her pages
Normal normal normal
Repeat until arbitrary
Deriving power with each use. Infliction.
Buried in my thoughts. My identity.
Instilled in my confusions
In control of the frivolity
Im at a loss with a word
When met with water:
Alkali metals violently explode
Harsh chords strike from shore
Those of feline blood flee
Flapping of wings halts; death waits
Falls create circles upon circles of lost perfection
The few ashore, fiddle with threads
silence in the air then
the inching fingers of my best friend
trying not to ruffle the stillness
lightly turning the shutter scroll of a disposable camera
followed by a quick, quiet click
a slow, satiated exhale
then silence in the air
tell me to Give Up
to Loosen my jaw
the imprint of my
two back molars
just doesn’t fit in
to your plum skin
in the same way
anymore