1.9.14

under lava

if she were a cassette and i was a winding finger i would 
be reversing her back to the long and short of ire; you know, ire: 

its like love but less daft, its the shadow of a laugh and the long wince 
from long left flirtations. wench i know your name, it pulses 
beside my head when i think i see my phone blink.  ire is like that. 

say you hate me, see me man myself in wrinkles and crawl into one of them 
and squeeze my pain like a glass jar.  say that's true, maybe i fiddle to the honey bee, 
maybe curtains sting as i put away the sun ....
 
if she were a cassette she would be in the garage in a box or at the dumpster under 
a bunch of lava lamps. 


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