I pick at my lips to pick something to start peeling away the feeling of you from my skin,

Scrubbing the taste of you off of my tongue, the smell of you from my nose like coffee beans at the perfume counter

I close my eyes tight and rub, as if I can force the stars beneath my eyelids to stop masquerading as you

I wrap myself in blankets like I used to be wrapped in you, trapped in you, like my ...

They pack bricks into boxes to bog me down, push me off a bridge into the river.

It’s okay, we’ve been through this before, there is a system. If you don’t follow it, you don’t get through.

Thinking feels like sinking or thinking is sinking and while sinking I’m thinking if I’m doing it the right way, what they’re thinking of me while I sink.

Sand crumbles under my feet when I reach the floo...

The songs she had been known for were one-hit wonders,

Remembered for a familiar chorus, an underrated tune.

She always floated through the melodies,

Used to being skipped over.

Waiting for someone to listen past the first track,

To stay past the intermission,

To play her songs on repeat.

But repeatedly, they fell short.

When he heard her for the first time,

He closed his eyes and thought he mig...

I thought I heard the wedding bells, thought I’d heard the choir sing

Didn’t know those sounds were from hell, begging for just a fling

You told me you wanted me then left me for dead, how should I believe I word that you said?

Somehow I always end up alone in my bed

They mean what they said that old habits die screaming, I died screaming

The texture of your words superglue chills to my spine,...