Poems from spectaris
Hi, I'm Elena, I have two chronic diseases, a boy that I love, too many freckles, and I want to be a writer.
You slide your hand down the slope of her legs
smooth, if she remembered to shave
And catch your fingers in her hair
knotted, because she...
Once I care about people
there's no turning it off
and five years from now
I will probably still regard
your name with a hint of sadness...
I've been sitting here for three hours
My brain, wracked
My nails, bitten
Why do I write?
Why do I write?
I write because I can
and because...
I wish we hadn't met
Or that years from now, in a coffee shop in some nameless city
while the rain pours down, and the ugly yellow of the...
And all of a sudden
just like that
I'm back to walking across that glass tight rope
And I'm slicing my feet
and they're bleeding down into...