close your mouth.

mucus drips from your mouth and falls onto the grey concrete every few seconds. 

it might stop if you shut it. 

the noise, too. 

it's loud, too loud. sirens in the night, blaring past your window at 2 in the morning when your dead asleep but not asleep enough to not be woken by an ambulance. 

you don't want to be an ambulance, do you? 

you don't want mucus dripping from your lips, do you? 

close your mouth. 

 

Comments

yokonotono

This is really good

bcp36912

hey! so i, uh, honestly thought no one would read this lol. thx!!! 

yokonotono

Hey, okay, after reading this poem I was like holyyyy crap this person is good. So i've been reading your poetry for the past like hours. You have some fucking talent on ya. I'm a senior and i relate to so much of what you're writing. Your risk taking....is amazing I love it so much! You inspired me to write my own a lot like it. Keep up the good work! If you wanna get in touch my IG is yeh.yoko! This isn't a promotion or anything lol you don't have to do anything with that. It's up to you! Sorry for rambling!

bcp36912

omg! that's... wow! i'm a freshman in college, the older poems i wrote in high school and the newer ones were written recently. i'm ebony btw. and i just followed you lol. i ramble too, it's def okay by me

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