One Very Important THOUGHT.

Banana's contain a specific enzyme that speeds up the deterioration of other fruits when placed close enough. 

Easily, comparable to myself. 

I'M TRYING

I'M TRYING

I'M TRYING

I'M TRYING

I'M TRYING

I'M TRYING

I sit still. I stare. I let the mosquitos slowly swallow my blood. I leave my shoes by the door. I fold the laundry. I butter the toast. I set the alarm. I cuddle, I coo. I read aloud. I criticize my body. I wonder. I eat. I scream. I stumble home. I move the banana's to their own bowl.

Eventually, everything rots.

HOT outside.

kill her,

killer.

I lie.

the BREAD.

grazing the thin blue grass, 

in the EAST, facing WEST

he's focused on the word MAN, in the context of MEN

the bread, and the meat between each piece.

how could a woman carry a cock ring, a man cry himself to sleep?

the liberated lack of emotion versus the robotic movements learned by book.

hilarity, for our meaning of marriage stunted.

we too, loved hard. licked each others wounds at the crack of dawn,

sucked teeth, mourned the same loss.

idle on hillside ,

this Man and this Woman.

question our roles as our own, kind.

using our sex cells, our bottom lips, our crooked jaws.

if only, everything could be OURS.

but we're stuck somewhere between reminiscing and role reversal,

who could be 

the ruler of Y chromosome,

even if lacking 
one?

IMAGE.

emersed.

there is no need to despise capitalizing on one's beauty, though difficult to place worth on the ideal features.

a theoretical price tag.

the unfavorable reminder, to be surrounded by women who are utterly revolting.

the hollow resemblance of an oni, 

but in 'one's eye's 

a pretty penny.

even

comparable to a specific screen-dream, 

perhaps.

if I too, were to shed all existing light from piercing my heart strings,

bitter, wearing soulless as chic

the bones & blood of a reptile

I too, could capitalize on you

and would no longer feel much of anything.

W H O C O U L D I B E? 

Non-Print.

M Y V E R Y O W N W O R D S


courtesy of Russ Martin.

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