Sad

Just kind of sad, that's all.
Apartment search is not going well.
Drama with significant other(s).
My saving graces: Friends, family, surrogate family, (Tarant)Ella the Spider Monkey, Occie (Octreuse) the Octopus, T2 (Thistle the Second) the Magically Disappearing and Reappearing Turtle.

Ok, just writing that down brought a smile to my face.
I love that I love little things.

Alternate Universes

Get this one thing clear:
You do not read love poems
and I most certainly
do not write them

None of this has happened
you did not kiss the yawns
out from beneath my ribs
I did not thread your hair with mine

I know this in the way
your shirt molds to my skin
how I miss the weight when it's gone
and your skittering gaze

You know this in the way
you refuse to keep quiet
lie still and let me
trace your topography

I need the distraction of guilt
to make it look like it should
but you have lust
which is more (than) real?

~~~~~~~~AEW~~~~~~~~

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Today

I was shaking today
Next to the glittering water
Under the intermittent sun, where
Our feet tickled the mountain's backbone.
But I disguised it well.

I drew lines today
Red and pink snaking across my map
Two minutes before you arrived at my door
I finished creating them.
But you couldn't tell.

I was dying today
Silently fighting for breath
Even while I asked after your family
And painted myself a new mask.
But you hesitated to ask.

I broke open today
Inexorably, stoically, minutely
One tear, one sob, one fist hitting the wall.
Small explosions are allowed, one a day
To keep the devastation at bay.

~~~~~~~~~~AEW~~~~~~~~~~

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