faster than fullness,
slower than madness,
the world melts in my hands
all my crystalline memories
swallow themselves,
hold their deaths
close to their chests
something lilac went missing from
my dreams
and now i am replacing it with
a million mint leaves
i leave
my old selves behind
constantly and without reason—
a viral impulse,
thoughtless
and impossible to undo
do not believe the body:
my silver pulse
repeatedly renews itself while
my golden breath,
in its arrogance,
reaches toward forever
reaches toward forever
i am a soft invisibility,
destitute & undone,
innocent but hollow
like a glass doll
repression is an angel
and swallowing is easier when
you’re asleep
an infinite number of times
i’ve rewritten my bones
& spoken silence to the sky
the sky:
an eye that doesn’t blink,
a portal into dreams
it seems
to me that wilting
is only a sane act
if done
when the sun’s
in hiding
i swallowed a bee and became a hive
i swallowed light and became a black hole
amputated dreams float around me
like balloons
my sadness is helium inflating me
my sadness is a robot that can only say 3 things
i hate you
i hate me
i hate everything
the kaleidoscopic alien inside of me
is breathing
is taking all my air
being a body is stupid and i want the moon for my birthday
but it’s so far away
but it’s so far away
faster than fullness,
slower than madness,
the world melts in my hands
all my crystalline memories
swallow themselves,
hold their deaths
close to their chests
something lilac went missing from
my dreams
and now i am replacing it with
a million mint leaves
i leave
my old selves behind
constantly and without reason—
a viral impulse,
thoughtless
and impossible to undo
do not believe the body:
my silver pulse
repeatedly renews itself while
my golden breath,
in its arrogance,
reaches toward forever
reaches toward forever
i am a soft invisibility,
destitute & undone,
innocent but hollow
like a glass doll
repression is an angel
and swallowing is easier when
you’re asleep
an infinite number of times
i’ve rewritten my bones
& spoken silence to the sky
the sky:
an eye that doesn’t blink,
a portal into dreams
it seems
to me that wilting
is only a sane act
if done
when the sun’s
in hiding
i swallowed a bee and became a hive
i swallowed light and became a black hole
amputated dreams float around me
like balloons
my sadness is helium inflating me
my sadness is a robot that can only say 3 things
i hate you
i hate me
i hate everything
the kaleidoscopic alien inside of me
is breathing
is taking all my air
being a body is stupid and i want the moon for my birthday
but it’s so far away
but it’s so far away