"I tell my friend about when I used to pray. He says he prays for necromancy and climate change."

From the Winter Sufjan Stevens' Ghost Haunted Me

"let's pretend reckless / wasn't a verb" 

funeral for losing another barbie at the beach

"it's two am and we've decided / we might be God." 

eros

"it won't have flies in it this time - i swear. the stores / don't put them there." 

ghazal as honeycomb inside a cardboard box

Self Portrait as Another Untitled Play

"it's two am and we've decided / we might be God" 

"the time we tried to burn / my house down / with a box of your dads' matches / and the tampons they gave us during sex / ed" 

after rewatching jennifer's body for the third time in the last week

"we are colliding / stars turned into supernovas turned into two / a.m. mario kart tournaments and screaming / lana del ray until our throats ache."

exercises in entropy

"'Ma'am - I take a sip of my Baja Blast - there's a line" 

Upon getting bored of Nietzsche and birdwatching in the Taco Bell drive thru 

"i can’t stop thinking / about red and smoke and all of the beautiful / lights that hang sometimes / and that each part of my body / is referential in some way" 

from rediscovering the impossibly birthmarked heart

"we will awaken and there will be lava / and torn pages"

after i overheard you and gabriel gossipping about me and he asks if if am spiritual

"Everything / she touches rots and blossoms / with larvae and caterpillars" 

Convincing myself of epigenetics 

"All I'll come here for is decay / and sunflower seeds." 

When spring leaves too quickly to plant forget-me-nots

“Write about when she tried to escape. About when she gave up, she started to peel off the wallpaper. At first by a little, then by a lot."

Kaydance Rice

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