fair grading.

rain rain you went away
come back and flush me down the drain.
i sat in the middle of the road and my mind's in a drought
i've got the carcasses of words baking in harsh artificial light within me.

[i slur my words, but don't think it's because i've been drinking
i just don't know how to bring myself to say anything to you.]

-

we're walking down the street, puddles lit by street lights.
there are rainbows in the cement cracks, and your words are sparkling with magic.
'this is where dreams live,' you tell me.
'this is where dreams live.'

[if this is a dream, then i must be snow white, and not even your kiss can wake me up.]

-

twinkle twinkle little star
your explosion burnt my heart,

i'm collecting galaxies and dust in my jackets,
purely because she's no longer around to wear them when she gets cold.
i think my sinuses are extrapolating a long night from tissues, flaked into what i know
what i can't remember and what i can't forget.

-

we give our hearts suitcases
and tell them to just leave, already.

except space is much too small, and
your memory is too much, too suffocating.
we could cross oceans or mountains and face death,

but the truth is
[there's no where to go.]

-

slumping back into rocking chairs and old habits,
i can be a new wave ghost of the unforgivable.
loose cannons strapped to this sinking ship -
i'm going down but it's not the first time.

[and you left me with this:

you and i went up the hill
to make our lives a bit brighter
broke my heart fixing your frown
and you came tumbling after.]