some favorites from my 30 poems/30 minutes exercise last night
i was eighteen when i learned to be rebellious
ringing the bell in my heart
hopefully i'm turning it back
to the way it was when it was given to me
but i swear, i'll only dig at wounds I think I can heal
i guess i also believe a wound is a gift
sometimes when I've forgotten mine,
where those that have burned themselves out
turn into empty, pregnant spaces
waiting for this collective state of mind,
this story, to end the life we've given to it
something. i'll word it, so then maybe you can invoke it
hopefully this pen (keyboard), will turn into a wand
what I want for my 23rd birthday is a wand
so i can birth myself a bird
and fly to the heights of my potential
shitting goopy fairy dust on strangers
so they can learn to finger paint again
tiredness still tastes too bitter for me
wanted: fire wood for my soul
my mom bites her fingernails
whenever my dad isnt paying attention
the details of my life were put in a safe place
i got some more hair on my chest this year
when i find your hair on my pillow,
with a calm and quiet mind
but i think there's a logic and a purpose to the bucking
the moon is shining tonight
glimmering off my crooked glasses
my fingertips like rising suns
i wish i didnt bite my nails
well, relatively and ultimately, respectively.
anywho, let's not get lost in it
jaded always sounded too pretty of a word
but maybe there's something to it
maybe someone saw the jade glimmering beneath
i found it in a friends dream
and decided to learn how to sail it