The Break-Up.

August has a way of stifling/souring/flattening. This was written in 10 minutes, first draft, but I love it. What do you think? (Written: 6/9/06.)

“x plus y equals z,/If y equals you and x equals me./Where z stands for love,/A million times and above.” (Written: 1/15/06.)

Shakespeare did first, sorry. (Written: 3/19/06.)

Not love, not

"I can’t speak. But the question is murmured in every shaking muscles’ movement. The car seat moans it as I rock back and forth. My fingers tear at the upholstery and scream the question out loud. Every sound asks it again and again and again." (Written:6

“They'll be 5'8'/And they'll have pain and/Joy in one ascent./Then they'll let themselves/feel the sweat of a hot pork roast/And say I was 3 once.” (Written: 9/23/05.)

"was that a battle fought/on the scrolling news ticker" (Written: 1/20/05.)

Philosophy of an old lady. (Written: 3/19/06.)

“It will remain/In the shadow of everything you do,/In the flicker of thought before slumber,/Sweaty and smashed,/In the spaces between your skin and another’s.” (Written: 5/10/06.)

Cynical about a mistake. (Written: 3/19/06.)

wrote this one for class last year, true story.

written in ginsberg's style for a school assignment