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She feeds me when I am starving for things I don't ask for,

she who

didn't think twice

before tattooing my profile onto her skin

amongst all the others.

There is no other one

who has equal amounts of fire and fight,

who matches me step for step

and bite for bite,

leaving marks on me deeper than any person could go.

And she's so good

she even makes me hate ( Read more... )

He drank it casually, as though it were a glass of milk.

When we kissed, it tasted like anesthetic; sterile as rubbing alcohol.

He had a wolfkiss full of sharp teeth.

I should have taken that as warning.

Back then

nothing else existed

but our future dreams of wedding

a family we wanted to build,

through our drinking and smoking with our red mouths,

my ( Read more... )

" ... I see more when I look in the mirror, now. the slightest shift in how I hold myself and what lies behind my eyes. a couple of my friends have asked how i'm doing but I never tell them what i'm really thinking. I never have in my life. I don't lie, persay, but I dodge and generalize, redirect and change topics so fast that most of them ( Read more... )

I blinded myself from your flaws with my love,
and you only loved me for the way I loved you,
not because you loved me for who I really was,
which is a lot like me
loving you because you had vices.
Because without them
you were nothing.
And now
without me
you are nothing.

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"Do you write about animals?"

I never write about an animal, unless it begins to speak.
I write about boys, who are a lot like dogs, only they do speak.
I write about true women, who are more animal than all those silly girls
or any other creature alive.
It is rare to find true men who have slain themselves, the animal,
and rare to find real women who ( Read more... )

When you told me
that we could have ended up
in the Missed Connections section
of Craigslist,
you told me
that you were composing the advertisement to be posted
while sitting across from me on the train that day.

Maybe it would have said something like,

"Uptown A train glances, Thursday night around 10:30pm, starting @ 59th St Station, m4w (3/3/2011)

We ( Read more... )

I become officially family to hookah bar owners when they give me free baklava, tea and hookah, introduce me to their family and call me "sister ( Read more... )