Jade

wrapped together, leatherbound
a diary in suade
put together, all about
a girl...Jade

once upon a time
she had another name
but butterflies, like callouses
wearied it away

dead leaves, autumn's pearls
she writes when she's wild
only wormhole, teal heart
speaks like the Dying Child

{"You're so easy," she says.} "I break you I shake you frankly manipulate you I tear you I scare you I double doggie dare you I always weasel burn your easel bite you til you bleed I make you cry and want to die so WHY DO YOU LOVE ME?"


once colored nails, chipped away
Jade, she likes to watch things fade
silver rings, brittle things
trapped behind the shade

Jade, she almost found
what seekers look for
compass gone, stagnancy
she expected more

{"You're so easy," she says.} "I break you I shake you frankly manipulate you I tear you I scare you I double doggie dare you I always weasel burn your easel bite you til you bleed I make you cry and want to die so WHY DO YOU LOVE ME?"


housecats body, under porch
beside book, leatherbound
steeped in earth, a human tea
Jade is what they found

stripped away mystery
in words and phrases made
not completely by myself
but in the tongue of Jade

{"You're so easy," she says.} "I break you I shake you frankly manipulate you I tear you I scare you I double doggie dare you I always weasel burn your easel bite you til you bleed I make you cry and want to die so WHY DO YOU LOVE ME?"


she's drunk behind the couch
dreaming prophetic dreams
hiding from her own adult
ripping all her seams
she's sugarhigh on the internet
and dances when she cries
getting high and flying away
SHE IS FIGHTING HER DEMISE

{"You're so easy," she says.}




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