It is what it is

Everything happens for a reason

Except rape and earthquakes.

What goes around comes around

Unless you get away with it.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

Unless it’s a stroke.

Tomorrow’s another day

But not if you die in your sleep.

Karma’s a bitch

No, karma’s a fairy story

Rich boys get off murder raps

Babies die the day they’re born

Or before.

Oh well.

Time heals all wounds.

It’s just sometimes

you have to 

wait

forever.

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James

You are my ton of bricks, I can’t see anything but you.

I want to fold up inside you, safe beneath your skin.

Alone I’m on stand-by

Only you can resurrect me.

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Untitled

This scrunched up

piece

of toilet paper

that I held in my

hand

so hard

as your eyes raged

black

Is all that is

left of me

It is the only

thing

of mine

still standing.

_______________________

Observatory

Ian showed me

a ticket

ripped, with a phone number

on the back.

Might have been

thrown out weeks ago

But now eerily kept,

Preserved.

He showed it to

me like a prize:

World Trade Center

Observatory

September, 2000

‘How big was it?’

I asked, with the

naivety of one

who has never seen

the like

of a skyscraper.

‘Bigger than you could ever imagine,’

he replied.






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Battery heart

I’m starting

to think

love songs are lies

love songs are

just

flush of lust songs.

No love song has

ever been written

ten years down the track.

Like a chicken

whose body grows

to becomes its own worst enemy:

the more you know of me

the more there is to

pull apart.

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Ill

I’ll never forget

that neon night we met

You were too good for me

at first

But not later.

We could have done anything

If only we’d co-operated.

Time passed

Love rotted

You threatened I’d be 40 and alone

Instead you’re 30, in a mental home

What were you thinking

When you took - a knife…?

or scissors

to your dick?

I’m sorry you’re so sick

I’m sorry

for a lot.

But not for everything.

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Blossom

Today

I watched

the cars bleed

on

the pavement

And

the trees

were weeping

softly on

the cars

Red and

pink drops

filled

the gutter

Bright

and deep

as

recent scars.



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