Writing Challenging Boundaries
How could I love you
When the breath you
Breathe is another man’s
In the modern world
A person’s quality
Is weighed in empathy.
Did you mean any of it?
Or was it your guilt that
Drove you to deceive me?
Do you have time
For my playdate?
Or am I sent to the
Back of the line?
Though I hurt you before
My mouth infected with golden hang nails
Puncturing feminine skin
Nerves tap dancing like bursting
Boiled alive blisters
Though you’re the broken heart
I hunt and stalk
Wild and crazed
Possessed by rabid anti biotic
Coursing through brains
To the putrid formaldehyde scrap of my brain
Spawning personal feral entities
Naked
Knuckles bruised
Blood painted on concrete walls
Hunch backed
Eagerly anticipating the kill
To leech and destroy
For the joy
Of watching beauty die
These are the moments
On frost bitten edge
When a pretty face
And a well written word
Asphyxiates
Instead of astounds
When swimming lessons
Make you drown
Falling over each other
With clashing lips
When words
Can’t hurt enough.
I’m not interested in being your house cat
I don’t have to calm down
Before I talk to anyone
To show you what it’s like to feed off of barflies like air
I have a bowl out back
Printed on the side
It reads
“Wifey”
That’s where you belong
For there isn’t enough room in this bed
For all of us
And you’re a few pages back
On the waiting list
