Itch - Not So Soft
I am evening the score I am cutting the umbilical cord curled with my teeth against my knees I am scratching at my consciousness like a bitch with fleas I think you’ll be greatly pleased to learn that yours was the hardest itch to relieve this is me without my hair welcome to my open […]
thank you for letting me stay here thank you for taking me in thank you for the beer and the food thank you for loaning me bus fare thank you for showing me around that was a very kind thing to do thank you for the use of the clean towel thank you for half […]
she sat there like a photograph of someone much further away we shared a brief bus stop on one of those inbetween days she gave me her smile and I looked underneath at the lipstick on her teeth she asked me for a light and if I thought her hair looked okay we grew out […]
you are subtle as a window pane standing in my view but I will wait for it to rain so that I can see you you call me up at night when there’s no light passing through and you think that I don’t understand but I do we don’t say everything that we could so […]
