Tailored
you work half an hour after closing on Friday, on salary, because depression demands obsession.
Tag: depression
Where are you?
are you out there? i’m looking for you, ya know. Every Saturday. I’m out there at the bar, trying my best to smile. I did my laundry, so that I’d have a nice shirt for tonight. I paid all my bills, so that I could run up the tab. And I shaved my head, […]
Uncertainty Principle
this has nothing to do with physics, i just have a broken brain, i live with a doubt disease, and when i put my hands on either side of my head, i can feel it shake at super speeds
Upon a Star
i wish i’d gotten the help i needed when i was thirteen, would’ve saved me some headaches
The Worst of Times
it was the worst of times, getting high in a stranger’s house, where my friends slept on the couch, they were homeless and he still owes me for his bail, working weekends, while the nights got colder, watching the old folks boil in the gym’s hot tub, sleeping alone while the snow tucked […]
Assembly Required
every few days i disassemble myself on the bed, clean and oil all the pieces with rag and q-tip, then i put on a blind fold, and try to put it all back together without looking, piece by piece, i seem to loose as many pieces as i find
A Gross Application of a Metaphor
4 years on a twin sized mattress with sheets that don’t fit, and a communal shower, you get out the other side with a nice picture frame and a 20 year sentence, for the crime of wanting a better life
Own Damn Good
it is a slow painful process to get out of bed, tie up my sneakers, for the gym, when I’m down even if I know, it’s for my own damn good
Burned
can’t bare to touch it with the hand, can’t cover it with clothes, lay there panicking in the night, sweating into your pillows and dreams, but it can’t be helped, you’ve been burned again
Love is a Terrible Thing to Lie About
you see so many people responding to tragedy, out here on the web, where so many can see them, where silence is suspicious, you wanna know where silence goes unnoticed? do you realize the weight of silence? its brute boot coming down on the struggling? a kid opened herself up in a bathroom, in a […]
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