Keeping the joneses - Free Verse (28.03.23).
- emmakmendes
- Mar 29, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 8, 2023
vanilla milk
shake(s) my stomach
rewatched for
the drama, stayed for
the End. praying She’s not
lost somewhere in
the Garden
picket fence stacked
sideways, left a scar I
still hear feet
tapping. still only
one shut door
away They run I’m
envious waking to
the Sun howling to
no Moon feels like home-
not enough
yet She
cries and I know my
Place rocking purrs,
cooing on
a windy sofa seasoning
Avocados letting
them
fall like Isaac
said, tasty
descent, icy
toes lost to the
Soil where I
buried a
Secret.
it’s coming up
Sour.
salt for the scabs,
spirit for the Spirits.
we should talk
More! out of order until
Further Notice! told
a Lie covered a bigger
one film breakdown
on the bathroom
floor hoping Ginger
isn’t mad hope the
Desert’s easy on
your leg like the
Valentines in my
tummy suffocating
moths, face
First feet on
the Shore suffocating on
a shell- she’ll come back,
Right?
Bought the courage He
promised scammed right
into the Inferno.
Dante is
dead crying in the
Corner, melted to a
Puddle of
Waxy
Nothingness so hot so
Pointless.
but still we Follow the
Marigolds.
Moving Out (On).- Anthology
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