“things i’ve said”
Tomorrow when the zealots uncover her sins, they’ll punish her just like God taught them to.
But right now, she’s alive and learning how to dance. It’s the perfect sort of first time: a favorite friend on the left, exchanged smiles with the girl across the room, an unfamiliar place that’ll feel like home soon.
And if you look deep into her eyes, there are twice as many reasons to stay as usual.
There’s another notice of foreclosure on my doorstep.“FINAL NOTICE” it says, printed in big bold red ink.That’s what they said last time but I tear open the envelope… just in case. At the top…
(SEPTEMBER SECOND, TWENTY-TWENTY-FOUR) dear red,dear orange,dear yellow,dear green blue indigo violet, // as a girl, i’m a defier of God.// to love me is to denounce Her.// and yet… only you could tell me…
tonight, i sit in my garden (it’s a bench right outside my apartment) and look at the moon, hoping you see her too there’s nobody else i think of when i look at the…
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