The Window In The Bathroom Thursday, Feb 23 2023 

Sitting nude next to an open window
on the 7th floor
& I have a joint in my fingers
I don’t normally drink gin
but it was purple
& I do love the color
I don’t know if I prefer to sway over the hot bath
or the cold street
I don’t know if I want someone to look up or if I wish to fall down
All I’m sure of
is that I shouldn’t be smoking this joint in the apartment.
   

A

4 years later & late at night Thursday, Jan 30 2020 

Sometimes I think about him and I miss him so much that it hurts

and in my pain I think I’m selfish for wanting one more conversation by the river

he doesn’t even need to hold me or touch me I just want to talk to him

one more time to toast with him and talk about the universe

To scold him for some of his opinions and then listen to all of his opinions

morning is so hard sometimesI feel like it can never end

I envy the people who go through all of the Motions all at once when they lose someone

I feel like I’ve locked so many things away that all the important things are in the back

there’s no way to get to them

but sometimes the light hits them just right and there they are looking back at me demanding that they are as important as they are and that I acknowledge them

just like that there’s a crack in the bucket

there’s a leak and before I can patch it it’s spilling all over the floor

but I always managed to seal it up

for a brief moment I had to be there and I have to write

it’s the only way to stay functional it’s my only Outlet

even though I once thought I was good at it regardless of if I am currently

its part of me

it’s all the notebooks under my bed

it’s all the regretful things that I wrote down

it’s morning it’s all of it

it’s me and i really miss him sometimes.

symbolic allegory Wednesday, Dec 18 2019 

fucking nostalgic

I’m catching feelings

I’m thinking about all the golden years

I just want to go back

but the only thing I have in front of me is the future

what kind of adult progresses that way?

I just miss you

I miss all of you

I just want you here with me

Chilling casually

What happened to the good old days?

Don’t you remember? backyard barbecues and cards Night

I’m so tired of fighting with him

All of him

every him

I just want to go back to the good old days

but all I have is the emptiness in front of me

Be an adult

make the money

Be independent

lay the Bed Rock

I just want to go back

To when we were young

No credit debt

no inferiority complex about not being stable Can’t we just remember when we went to the Riverside?

t-shirts and swimsuit bottoms

yelling at loons like we were mermaids

But now we have bills

The fairy houses won’t fit us now

Can’t you recall the temperature on the porch? Perfect for sleeping bags

and long stories

do you remember when the bat flew in the house?

The stunned look on his face outside in the air

introduce to Freedom

Playing dead for fear repercussion

before taking flight

realizing his potential

and how he flew then

into the pitch of Darkness

not knowing where he’s going

but to the air

that was only his

in that moment

And in our past

Angry at insomnia short Saturday, Nov 23 2019 

If insomnia was a person I would punch them Square in this fucking jaw and I’d keep punching. I’d punch like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest crazy pants, insane person. I would go ham on an insomnia. I just want to anthropomorphize the disease so I can conjure a mental image of the severe ass whooping that I would lay down upon that poor physical representation. It would be murder. It would be a murder people would write books about. It would be a murder that podcast would do episodes about an every True Crime podcast would be like yeah that girl it was far too much.

A poem never to finished Monday, Oct 21 2019 


Without him I shall write a thousand tragic endings, with Newfound freedom I shall let my inspiration go wild. With its own agency it will fly across the page ending only in a bonfire of a million notebooks, none fit for the eyes of any reader. Free in body but not in spirit. I lament my own folly. A trick I have played on myself. the only punchline is an unfinished poem and not even a good one.


Change scares me Saturday, May 27 2017 

I’m nervous and I’m scared
I’m scared of going there
I’m afraid to return
I’m thinking of my love
when the truth
He comes to learn
if I want to succeed
I must leave my past
Fresh start, go in blind
but how can I leave a whole life and dysfunctional true love behind
I’m trying to be brave
but I’m running out of steam
I feel like crying
and I feel like dying
And under the moon with birds chirping
in a graveyard I will scream
I hate saying goodbye.

27: lamenting 26 Wednesday, May 17 2017 

[Easy to read, not my chiken scratch version.]

           33 minutes ago was my 

                         Birthday

I am awake at 12:34 p.m. 

feeling remorse for 26.

great lines for five or six different poems, Clouding my brain.

none of them correlate and all are unfinished. 

barely a thought.

I know you want me to say I’ll get through it, I’ll be okay. 

Maybe I’ll be okay, it doesn’t feel like it but I’m not a doctor.

I didn’t finish school, I can’t finish this poem and I’m still awake. 

27 unfinished, alone and awake. 

happy birthday Abby.

-AsL

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I tried.  Thursday, Apr 27 2017 

I was inspired, and I had the right fule. My fingers couldn’t keep up. All the books and paper have been boxes and I’m dammed to this screen. So I’m conclusion I tried to write, it was to be something worth reading as well but I’m sorry readers. Tonight I can’t make you a grate vison. I can’t pull from my soul a dark poem or two. I have no story’s to tell not even one tail and I definitely cannot give you a novel. Sadly I don’t even have a one liner for you, not even a limric. So I’m sorry my readers, I did try.

A

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I just can’t believe it. Wednesday, Mar 8 2017 

I can’t believe I’m up this late again

I can’t believe I still haven’t gotten good sleep since I got back

I can’t believe how little I’ve done to pack and prepare

I can’t believe how much has changed during such a slow passing of time

I can’t believe my brother did that

I can’t believe I’m moving back

I can’t believe I don’t I should go home

I just can’t believe it.

all nice things aren’t nice Wednesday, Jan 25 2017 

Things are amiss

 they’re not as they should be

 I had a plan

written down 

but it’s too dark for me to see

I’ve stumbled through the crossroads 

a pebble in my shoe 

I was content to wonder

but then I met you

you made my compass needle fly

the sun I found burnt my eyes

and I wanted to fumble back into the dark

your a wonderful but terrifying new start

and I’m scared. 

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