or it won't heal.
Youth

Piano FingersHey there piano fingers. Guitar string singer.Piano Fingers
Stop trying to tell me that you need love.
We were stumbling in the streets, and you held my hand only because she was holding too.
And then we stormed the playground and I even remember hanging upside down, and the three of us swinging.
But more than anything, I remember down the stairs and into your bedroom.
And I remember always being on your left side. Always curling up with you, and with her [even though she was always asleep first]. This time though, things had a different feel.
Or rather,
I think


strings of pearls and breathunderwater they are mermaids. patterns of poolwater-caught sunshine dancing in soft-edged white upon their long legs (tails). red hair like ocean fire and fingers ever reaching for the bubbles, like pearls but from out their mouths. darting up between their fingers.strings of pearls and breath
there are places here, beneath here, beneath the sound of their mother yelling at their father and the loud rough of the neighbours dogs bark, where they can breathe. breathe the dead leaves in water whirlpools beneath their feet and breathe the chlorine, leaving eyes red and hair green at the tips. breathe the quiet of their bodies and their imagined unde


i think it was a fridayI walked about 4 miles home while nursing a bottle of vodka.i think it was a friday
I've seen these houses, these businesses, every day for years but now they glow with that pre-dawn illuminance offered by speeding drunks and cops and kids on pcp screaming down alleys when I'm the only one who can hear.
I don't remember it raining during the night but the puddles huddling against the curbs seem to remind me of something. Something lost and stagnant like the abandoned bastard water that exists without the rain to blame it on.
I left the party and the friends when I realized that I hated every
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Love is the Movement. | Note me your poetry suggestions for *DailyLitDeviations! | Have you seen today's *DailyDeviants? | Last Night on Earth
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Haha, oh, maybe I should tell you that this is Alexa, you know, that crazy girl from work who- believe it or not- is friends with Steve and saw your epic note in his journal. But seriously, holy shit! I love your work!!
I'm getting more of mine up soon, they're mostly all epic fails though! Anyways, see you Saturday morning!
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~Alexa
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