they don’t really know what they
are doing
forgot all the things you said
to help them understand
the sun will shine again
your honey will love you
through anything
and when you put on your uniform
and go to work
all will even out
like cream stirred into
coffee
#katyamills
i paid you a fair wage to help paint these walls
when you overdosed we could not wake you
firefighters empowered to slap you into consciousness
high on heroin with money you stole from me
when i figured it all out i was blazing mad
but thanked god for sparing your life
#katyamills
a storm of emotion
anticipation of victory
all the colors of all the territories
condensed into one
powerful narrative
delivered to all the major publishing
houses only to face resolute
defeat
#katyamills
you wanted me
to be soft and sweet. safe
but i came out all hard
and tough to swallow
you broke your teeth
on me. tasted blood
i left the leash and collar
snagged upon your
fence. i ran with all i
got. body mind spirit
guts
#katyamills
must we always ruin a perfectly decent Saturday with our Saturday night fight?
#katyamills
he would work
until it killed him
distant he surrendered the emotional fields
full of land mines
you cannot tell him to stop
he has no stop
#katyamills
ten years before
on the brink of madness
they slept rarely and up all night
emotions swallowed them
there was nowhere in the world
they knew to be safeÂ
ten years on
they would never forget
the terror of the past
and each and every new sunrise
they was inside and out
radiant
#katyamills
she shivered in a tank top
walking home in her black work boots
her work uniform long gone
they call it letting you go
which is nice nice for clean out your locker
get out and don’t come back
damn it she said
i will find somewhere
better
#katyamills
the road on which we traveled passed along and over the ridge. life all mistakes for a time before it leveled. we hit a diner. walked around. talked to random people. i am warmer in the cold, paradoxically, gambling the tax refund away… downhills are harder than the climb #katyamills
we set out. the sun was high in the sky. denver omelettes and coffee. we put chains on and headed up the mountain. you were chewing on jerky, i played with the chain on my neck as we talked it all out. the rivers were mighty carrying snow and dead skin down to the valley.
#katyamills
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