sleepyhead messyhead,
I’ll live to tell the tale.


A bundle of teenage atoms inside a weak net waiting
First dating
Familiarizing yourself with the terrain.

To bust out

anxieties punch through paper bags
to take a stand
rolling over to the EKG

to check your status.

you’re spreading everywhere through me
enough
of you

is never
enough.

11/15/2009

Author's Note: once upon a time there were cotton candy bedsheets and a sticky child who slept inside of them.

Posted on 11/15/2009
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