seen them “holiday” card scramblers heads down, frantically shuffling fingers through the leftover scraps of the rush from last week, from the weeks before, from that crazy fucking black
expect the punches to never cease & learn to fight--- expect the fight to get harder & to drag on for what seems like forever & learn to persist--- expect the persistence to become habit
need we mention to mr. hope & change that action vowed isn’t a question of identifying & stigmatizing the “mentally ill,” as if they were all wielding guns? need we mention to
though during you may very well let it all pass, directly afterwards, you do your best to forget the lies you had to tell when all the clothes were off,
perhaps it was the amount of time that you waited to reciprocate, perhaps you spent too long thinking about it, perhaps you had other things on the table, perhaps you found yourself looking