Friday, April 19, 2024

lonely in Alabama's largest city

i can smell myself from a mile away
rubber bands and hot hair, like teen girls
                            straightening their hair
spray me down with your perfume
so tonight i can lick my arm.

to taste how you smell, it's
sweat and janitor cleaner
                        low notes
flowers and powder donuts
                        high notes
savor this rare scent.

everytime i decrease
my antidepressant
    - return to early puberty
i am pre-teen love
want everything
    right now, but get
nothing later.

sniffing the page you touched.

hugging a teddy bear close.

i need to know something you.

what did you eat today?
i am sullen at the thought
you may not have 
        had any fruit at all today.

i ate an orange for you
peeled off this skin
it clings to me still
i am citrus tone
    walking down 
an empty hall
            all alone.

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