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cake-error — beneath the strings
Published: 2012-01-10 03:34:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 118; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 2
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today i breathed in the sharp notesfelt them crawl down my throat and dig into my chest
i let my fingers fall and tried too-late to stop them
dull quiet notes
softer than the pad of nobody's footsteps on the stairs
shallow prints on the carpet of all the black keys
streaking up and down between floors and chords
the sound isn't sweet enough
to replace the sweetness that i once might have
so-fleetingly so-swiftly.
today i inhaled all the accidentals
screaming and caustic against my still-healing muscles
pulling at torn cardiac muscles -
or perhaps burning neurons and dendrites
washing out your memory,
taken in to block another
and hurting just as much.
i let my hands still
orange under the dimmed lights
i let the switch fall
and in the darkness,
i curled up underneath the wooden beams,
so assured stiff strong honest real true beautifully quiet and so always therei hid my head against my knees with
cold cold flesh, and
cold cooling blood, and
cold colder coldest tears salty and delicious on my split lip
i hung my head,
hung my heart,
and cried.
today i inhaled your words
and i wished
i wished
that they had been for me.
