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How to Sleep and Never Wake UpThe year they discovered my best friend, twenty years old and silent under the heap of her wrecked car, I learned one can sleep forever and never wake up.More Like This
That year, her sister, only seventeen, ate magic mushrooms and lost her mind and her brother, fourteen, started running and stopped eating and I didn't eat magic mushrooms but lost my mind anyway as everyone watched my skin, too white to be real, disintegrate before their eyes.
That year I flew to Colorado to see an urn surrounded by pointe shoes. It reminded me more of a wastebasket than the last I would see of the girl who shared my soul. Her sister ran naked through the street a few da
imaginaryoh darling, we will never be the same. in seven months i lost my jar of butterflies & glitter dust. now, i am rinsed in acid rain. in the wild i wore my antlered frame with pride beside the minnow lakes; i forced my legs to run with the wolves, but god, did i miscalculate.More Like This
we are never coming back, so let's put our formers to rest. i unveiled my baby flesh with liquor & sex sweat. i hear someone sing to me, & fall to me knees. beeswax & honey lifting me through the trees. my skin will never taste like saltwater. you'll never press your ear to me & hear the sea. i was your enigma, & you were my favorite mystery. but we are never returning, so
skeletonwe met up after dark,More Like This
i thought i was afraid
of finding mold
of floating through a locked door
to see you already
have a ghost,
but i’m terrified there’s not
a single bone
hanging between your coats
because there are five coats
of paint on my walls--
i keep masking the stench
of the bodies behind them
and i’m frightened
that not a finger on your hands
has ever squashed a bug
just to see the words
that you could spell out
in its blood
because i have written
entire poems
with the veins
of someone i once
thought i loved,
i am scared you are
not human but i am petrified
that you have never
been a monster
Sta.sh
