56

I have an office now.
It has desks, and chairs, and couches.
There are two scrawled upon greenboards.
It is right next to the room where I did
math for four years before.
It is quiet.

55

It's not that no one says it,
it's just that I haven't heard someone say
fucking
in a long time. Am I sex deprived?

It's weird when you stress the f,
it takes the emphasis off the violence,
sounds more lovely. Isn't that weird?

54

They'll show you how to run the show, yeah
they'll show you what the statue looks like
from the foot left in the water,
and they'll show you how the Caribbean Road leads
right to the Brandenburg gate,
if you dig.
So, you dig?

This is weird stuff, we believe.

53

All of your friends are out
on dates with other people.

I saw the guy with dirt entrenched
under his fingernails
sipping soup with an irksome smile.

52

I started flossing again,
but neglected my journal.

Isn't that always the way?
Anal floss.

51

I like my tea scalding,
but not uncomfortably so.

50

I want to do it perfectly again.
I thought we could snap
and the moment would freeze
and the wave of our image
would crash onto itself.

I snapped, and I thought
it would all be mistakes,
far from perfect.

I was wrong.
I can't achieve,
but I can approach.

49

Don't you hate it,
when you fully believe
in your sentence,
until you reach the end of it?

I said: i tried to replace you with them,
but I don't think it's true.

48

It was a hot kiss.
I felt your lips, the moisture,
did I mention the heat?

Like all the best kisses
it made me remember the first ones.

But I can't have those now,
so though you warmed my cold fingers
and touched my heart,
I gently pushed away.

47

If this summer were a roller coaster.
Now is the shaded queue,
in between rides.