They have bamboo canyons

They have javelin tendencies

CLASSIC REDACT CASSIO CLASSIC REUP REVISE WINTER BREAK 2004 YALL

I was not bewildered
I have read the rules extensively, while drunk
I am not the doggy bag
I am not the floating goldfish
You don't have to send someone to collect my newspaper or stop my mail

You smoke painful cigarettes
You turn the shower hotter still
You drink to fill the bilingual silences
and tear your hair out

I made my promises
I projected my losses
You project your loss onto me
Aren't you familiar with the crackle of desperation?

you've lost weight
your face is more edged and more beautiful
your stare is cutting

I am older than you were.
You are older than you were.
I no longer have hands that you could force
I'm not your problem
I'm just the girl you love

You shouldn't move on.
You already moved.
You were gasping for breath and grinning down
knocking down the columns before your plane was off the ground

TUFF ALSO

yup so
i wanna fall in love with a lion
WELL WAIT A MINUTE
IT'S TIME TO CANCEL OUT IMMORTALITY FROM THIS EQUATION
YOU CAN DECIDE YOU WANT SOMETHING
but that's about all you can do
I AM A LION INSIDE

let me be real for a second:

1. i went on 4 dates from okcupid and the connecting thread was,
2. when i asked each one of them what their spirit animal was,
3. they all said i'm a lion

YOU ARE A LION INSIDE
HELLO! YOU ON THE INTERNET
LAST YEAR WAS POEM A DAY 2010

OKAY NOW THE POEM IS ABOUT TO START
THE MOVIE IS ABOUT THE START
THE MOVIE IS ABOUT TO START
I LOVE YOU
THE MOVE HAS ALREADY STARTED
I HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO MOVE
I HAVE ALREADY MOVED
I AM ALREADY MOVING
i am already moved

Internal Rhythm

4.

The morning is sunny,
The evening punctuated
with a quiet pink sunset
She sits on a soft leather couch
surrounded by red golden embroidery
She is sipping green tea
between bites of spicy noodles.

She is imagining this is a memory-
impossibly plush, clean, luxurious

When she is looking back someday,
when the world has gone mostly
in flames
and she is huddling
in ashes, maybe
or under the black hulk of a tree

If it comes
it will be quite suddenly
no pundits
no advance warning
but a sudden rush of hot air
the windows shaking
her voice, inexplicably
rising in a scream.

yoyoyoalso baby as accessory

SHOULD I REWRITE IT?

PERFORM BIOLOGY! (being seperated from your life)

look dude
uknowthatilikeu
butyoudontlikemeback
whatthefuckiswiththat

also
webothknow
youstillgo
outtoeatburritos
withotherdumberdudes

up
coming
shows

Remember me as how I was

Before my eyes rolled up.
before a madness rolled out erratic, arachnid, before
my hands, arthritic, crinkled up into webs
and the spider of my brain escaped all over my body.