you used to have a future, now you don’t even have a past. you won’t have half an answer if anyone cares to ask

can we act like we never broke each other's hearts? at least mine—i don't know how you felt from the start

how long until we find our way in the dark and out of harm?

her nose runs ruby red, death's in a double bed, singing songs that could only catch the ear of the desperate

i know i dishonored the family name, but all i ever had was my heart

every single day when people try and put the pieces back together just to smash them down

and well i, i won't go down by myself but i'll go down with my friends, yeah

break your neck, and i will love you like a bird that cannot fly

you’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. and you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired.

i spoke too soon, it seems, for you made a home in my dreams

sharp teeth doth not equate to quick death

years later he still didn't know how to say it, and she was gone.

it's like i'm better, better, better off worse. rejecting change to keep you there

tell me, the poet says, the lie i need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so i believe you

we have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the heroes shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

you stopped by my house the night you escaped with tears in my eyes, i begged you to stay. you said, "hey man, i love you, but no fucking way!"

i'm sifting through sand, sand, sand, sand looking for pieces of broken hourglass, trying to get it all back, put it back together as if the time had never passed

i've shattered now, i'm spilling out upon this linoleum ground. i'm reeling in my brain again before it can get back to you. oh, what am i supposed to do without you?

you can wander through the ruins

i was just an only child of the universe and then i found you