Maybe you should write a poem about that, Emily. Mm.


Secret Underground Cave OfficeThe small pile of bird flesh and white feathers gradually became consumed by a somehow considerably larger ball of flames over the course of two hours. The corpse was a source of light, one of two in that muddy office. Sargent Senator Undan held the other one close to the ceiling; it was the torch the suicidal dove had flown into earlier for the sole purpose of ruining everyone's day.Secret Underground Cave Office
Because he was deaf, Sargent Senator Undan couldn't hear the wood in his torch crack as it burned. Below him, his secretary, Bernadette, was digging her elbows into the pungent mud-moss that covered Undan's cave office floor as she stared


I invited myself herestill, he is weighty I am no presence apart from white noise I define myself by the air between my fingers our individual spaces, the incredible silence his fan is burning my brain it moves air under my heels while his linoleum leaches ice into my toes and nothing is circulating bloodI invited myself here


Love poemHis hands are weightless they float in midair fully formed, mesmerizing as I watch them mine turn to putty they thunk on metal benches graceless, repetitively as brand new bird shitLove poem


My callouses are gelatinousMy callouses are gelatinous; I have jelly fingers. I liquefy into my swaddling as I touch my waist, I lift the cotton wrappings and my stomach follows. Oil and fat and acid seep into my sheets, bleeding into black stains, smearing ink. My body is melting skin, loosening muscle, siphoning marrow, dribbling into my mattress, waterfalling. I merge with my scent as my nose disintegrates. I am heady, I am acrid fuel: gasoline, coal, alcohol... I should set my fingertips on fire.My callouses are gelatinous
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