- Whitman

Missing me one place search another,

I stop somewhere waiting for you.

"Lyrical Lies"

& you want to be dressed in poetry
but imagery doesn't fit.

so you want resizing--
but, darling dear,

get a grip.

"Better Off Dead"

ash his  heart  onto theground, 

                  BURNhis guts out byfrustration;

be careful, you mightKILLhim--

lyrical lies

"& your (eye)lids are your best canvas--

icanonly   i m a g i n e
what you're painting..."

(tasting bright sweat and dark pavement)

i collapse with air burning fiery holes into my lungs, street gravel pressing temporary tattoos of dots unto my palms. and you are already standing behind me. barely winded, and nothing but love and understanding on your kind, kind face.

i didn't ask you to run after me.             i whisper.

but i couldn't help it.             you answer.

(and you say exactly what i want you to say)

"Blind"

After all this time,
   I never thought we'd be here--
     never thought we'd be here,
(when my love for you was blind)
but i couldn't make you see it--
       i couldn't make you see

that i loved you more than you'll ever know

(a part of me died when i let you go)

Jimmy Eat World--

ican'tHELPit,baby

THIS is who i am.

( i'm sorry, but )

ican'tJUSTgoturn

off how I feel

you KILL me;

you BUILD me up,but just towatchme break--

i know what i should do

but i just can't walk away.

-Kill

ohGOD,pleasedon't

tell me

THIShasbeeninvain?

i NEED answers

         for what all

the    w a i t i n g

i've  done  means

you KILL me;

you've got some nerve but can't face your mistakes

--i know what i should do,

(but iJUSTcan't turn away)

voices to voices,lip to lip

i mean that the blond abscence of any program

except last and always and first to live

makes unimportant what i and you believe;
not for philosophy does this rose give a damn...

E.E. Cummings

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down