My grandfather's Alzheimer's is worse. The thing about it is though, and it's sick and it's sad and it has the propensity to break your heart in your throat- but upon leaving her parent's house, my mom said that her sister called simply to say that "(dad) liked that funny woman" who was over ( Read more... )

how heavy is the moon for you to move;
she never asked, he just misplaced it when she told him it was too bright.

"I like looking at you."

welcome to your new year, ally.

"10/23 ( Read more... )

It's all mouth and hands, but not on me. It's the gentle pull of his lips, the quick suck of his breath, the balance of his fingers, and the cigarette that dances between. I always ask him what he smokes because I never can remember- why, I don't know, I don't buy them. I guess if we're ever waiting for the governor to call I'll know what to ask ( Read more... )

what do they really know of a girl who's feet are always cold, who's hands are small and soft, who's reading the great gatsby because she cant remember if he gets her, who writes like a poet in love, and who now has four tattoos.

kiki dee and elton john sing in the background.

I've pushed it out and onto paper; in my head all it does is turn over and around until it just molds into the same old thing and the same old issue.

brain origami and what im about to form is beautiful.

the most beautiful thing I saw yesterday was a girl with downs syndrome standing in front of the security television in the store that I work, smiling, dancing, looking up at herself in sweet and utter amazement. somewhere a ceo tracking shoplifting patterns lifted his elbows off his desk and smiled.

forgive me.

An Ode to Caution
(and the wind);

We met once
On a street filled with winos and whores
and an unnecessary smell.
(You blew me away.)

having loved her ( Read more... )

Woodward ave in a red car that feels so much not my own but somehow, money and pain and signatures it is. listening to elton john sing to me things i already know- marilyn died in the nude, butterflies are born to fly, etc.

no more excuses of not being able to get places, and yes, take it not so literal.