Time Flies

overcommittedovercommitted singing translucent sonnets while trying to focus focus focus arriving late to class holding textbooks piled too high to see dropping worksheets rushing to meetings learning musicformulaslines (because of course, T2 = 4pi2r3/GM) hold in your screams ignore their concerns [prove it to them, you've got to prove it to them]overcommitted
they suit each other so well he's as busy as she is not enough tim


star light, star brightthere were no stars in her sky; he took them down one by glimmering one and jammed them into astar light, star bright
rotten cardboard box his love declared on a moonbeam ladder
sometimes when she looked
up into those empty heavens she
forgot how to breathe; taking in great thick gulps of nothingness like drowning in velvet eternity is a difficult thing to digest
but sometimes she secretly laughed at those who wished upon stars, knowing that wishes
only come true when there are no more stars to wish


it is not enoughit is not enough just to miss you. i have to learn how to walk again; how to live without meat and kissing, how to sleep shaped like a balled up fist. it is not enough just to miss you. i have to adopt twins init is not enough
Africa, name them Lost and Weird, forget to feed them. i have to go to every pet store in America and rescue all the seahorses. i have to tattoo D A R K B I R D
inside my lip and stand in children's playgrounds like a broken arm, creaking. it is not enough just to miss you. it has to hurt. i have to write poem