Sunday, August 30

Vices

I love to write about sunshine and sand in between toes and butterflies and nature but tonight
I'm feeling rebellious. One thing about writing is that you can become whoever you want to be, or, rather, slip out of your own life for just one second and enter into someone else's. It's nice, right? So poems that say fuck are never out of the question. Never, ever turn down an idea because it's too risqué.

inhale.

mom hates cigarettes.

but, fuck it after this one

there'll be another one.

then another after that.

and maybe, drink, drink

until the sun creeps it's

cheery fingers through

the hole in the wall.

and maybe stay out

and no, don't tell her

where you've been or

who you've slept with.

mom hates cigarettes.

and alcohol and sex and

everything that might

just take her baby away.

fuck it.

exhale.

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