SketchyKitten

you consume me so late in the night and far away from your sight smell sound touch and taste but you remain with me are there with me when i breathe it is of you when i close my eyes the image carved in neon brite-lites is of you and it hurts just as much as when i bite my lip the pain and copper taste is you and you and you i waste myself on your whimsy darling my heart is flower fields exploding at your nation's mercy and i shit and i keep trying to smile like it don't matter like your smile leaves the room with you like it don't matter how your voice keeps in my ears swirling like the ocean in a

my mother's sighs the wrinkles at my father's eyes the broken pieces at our feet lie in pleading agony we do not want these things to break let's be friends for each other's sake there is no love there is no need we only want some complacency and oh they cry what does happy mean? these placid lies these melting dreams they stain the hands and smash the teeth and so it means one full table not too far apart to all sit in a quiet car when the cries at night belong to the cats next door when dishes fall and are not thrown when all of us can share a home and so and so the dappled tears that mumble wet the vase tha