I NEED TO

WANT YOU

I WANT TO

NEED YOU

to have and to

not throw

VERBALLY BLEED

onto me

you can pick

WHICH LIPS

to bleed from

as long as some of it

gets on me

NOBODY HAS TO KILL

THEMSELVES

OVER THIS

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE

regardless

over this

I YEARN FOR WORDS

OVER MINE

THE YARNS AND STORIES

OF OUR LIVES

INTERTWINING

I WANT TO ADMIRE

THOSE I INSPIRE

PLAYFULLY CRAVING

THEM FROM ACROSS

THE ROOM

AFTER WE’VE SPENT ALL DAY

IN BED TOGETHER

Having pizza and getting fat

off of conversation

I WANT YOU TO

LEAVE ME ALONE

I DON’T WANT TO

ARGUE WITH YOU

ABOUT MY LATE NIGHTS

AND BLOW

things out of proportion

I DON’T KNOW

maybe I am a hopeless romantic

with commitment issues

but all of my friends are

HOPEFUL

that one day,

I will find someone that

makes me sing

“I’ll come running

with a heart on fire”

exposing my cajun ribcage

lumps of coal

spilling out

of my chest

piling up

in front of me

picking out

a pair of eyes for my

Aphrodite Snow Betty

COLD AND CURVACEOUS

WITH A PEG LEG

darkly crooning:

‘that poor thing

has come a

long

way

for bad times with

good people.

such a

cheap trick!’

I WANT TO

NEED YOU

I NEED TO

WANT YOU

before the honeymoon

distills itself

into a supressed spirit

all the splendor submerged

below the fact that

I AM A HEARTLESS

ROMANTIC

WANTING

NEEDING

NEVER

GIVING

ANYTHING

ACCEPT FOR A KISS

GOODBYE

i want to be told that

i suck