look, i know you’re nervous it’s okay, i am too our love has been doing handstands with closed mouths (biting my tongue never seems to work, poetry falls out of me like a skydiver who left her parachute at home, and all sensibility for that matter) you don’t have to worry about how long you can keep steady, i’m no acrobat either i’m on a balance beam between heart and brain and my wrists are getting tired look, to be honest, i don’t know how to hurt you yet not to say i would ever intentionally hurt you it’s just that i don’t know if you’re weak in the throat or the shoulders or the ankles when i’m clearly weak in the knees i guess that’s what i get for wearing my heart on my sleeve look i feel like you’re the last person i’m ever gonna love and that’s not to say i’m gonna do it correctly and that’s not to say that love poems won’t spill from my lips like blood from a rose thorn prick and that’s not to say my knees won’t wobble from time to time what i mean is, i think our love will be the death of me my wrists are so tired from the weight of it all this love takes everything from me but it’s the only thing that makes me feel brave
HANDSTANDS (WHOEVER LOSES THEIR BALANCE FIRST LOSES THEIR MIND)












