The boy:Looks me in the eyes ( Read more... )

This right here ( Read more... )

Funerals aren’t for the dead. I missed his, sleeping through the alarm on a groggy summer morning. I wonder if he knew them, if he had seen even half of them in his last year. Some nights, I try to picture it, ask silent questions. Did he know what he was doing, or was he just trying to ease the pain? Was his band failing? Had he lost a job, a ( Read more... )

I listen to the words spin, don’t touch pen to paper - too busy tasting the moment. They tell me what I’m feeling more concisely than my pencil strokes ever could. I see the fading picture-like memories; don’t touch charcoal to pad because it never turns out. I see the thunderstorm brewing just out of reach of the sunset’s last rays; remember the ( Read more... )

Can’t I ask you not to smile for me? Those bright, crooked teeth make me feel like some transparent thing. Don’t you know you don’t have to be fake? Maybe I seem that way, but I’m not. I swear I’m always honest for you - I always will be. Why do you look at me like that? Like you’re not sure what to think when I open my mouth to speak. Is it ( Read more... )

It’s strange how much it means to me ( Read more... )

Bowling alley daydreams suck me in as my hopes sizzle under fresh-made fries. I feel another paperback romance coming on, and I can’t help but watch myself fall in love with her punk rock gown and lemonade laughter. She takes a photograph of my peculiar smile and I ask her why she bothers (as I check my shirt for honey mustard stains.) I wonder if ( Read more... )

Profanity has been turned in. I don't feel that it is complete. I know that there's work to do. However, I also realize that I need to move on. I have outgrown it ( Read more... )

Sedition

( Part One )

It always intrigued him to see the city so dead in the morning, as if abandoned in the early light. Perhaps he should have been a bit worried, as there was no one left to hear his scream should something happen, but he wasn’t. The local rapists didn’t make a habit of jumping lanky, not-so-teen boys as it were, and he didn’t carry much cash on him ( Read more... )