Monday, January 9, 2023

the recon / toilet break cries.

i sell my soul for a grand reason and cough up my pride for paper.
would you cry for someone else's brain tumour even
if it meant you're swallowing needles for them too? i
look at the mirror and i'd fuck myself.
i do this for myself.
for myself so that other people do it for me.
waking up is already a hard one, i'd become a sixties queen just
for a little kindness, even if it's synthetic and comes from the wrongest of place.
i don't care.
just watch what you say to me.

men with money calling me stupid, can't hold a conversation.
i still pray to god in happy times and call up my mother when i am crying in the toilet.
call up my friends when it's bad and i'm reaching for my lighter in the dark.
self-destruct because it's easier to die than to live for.
dive into the kill first, mourn the murder when it's dead and buried.
i do kindness for kindness, that if in the pipeline you met me with a foul
mouthed bitch, i'll hold my tongue for you.

my temper or i cry out in front of you.
you'd love to see me damselling in distress.
men with nothing but money.
getting by and they will live better than i ever will.
that is my tragedy and theirs.