You were 18 when you died,
but I suppose you know that.
It's just I have to remind myself sometimes,
because 18
feels too young for a bullet
Do you remember the bullet?
The shiny silver pill you slid into the chamber,
ready to inject it into your skull
and cure the ailments of living?
Because nobody wanted you,
right?
Nobody wanted to hear the sultry sound of your voice
after a day away from you
Nobody wanted to hold you
as a waning moon rose over your heads
while they rocked you through all those hard nights
you thought you'd have to endure alone
Nobody wanted to kiss you,
press their mouth like a leech
against every inch of your flesh,
How To Mourn A Lover in 5 Steps (Spoken Word) by Weird-and-proud-LOL, literature
Literature
How To Mourn A Lover in 5 Steps (Spoken Word)
1. Find a song you love and listen to it often;
it will become your favorite companion.
It will hold you through the hard nights
and dance with you when mornings feel
especially beautiful.
Don't think of him.
Just sing.
2. Get used to the freezing cold;
it may be your only friend
until you learn new ways to love.
Because you knew his way for so long
and you've forgotten all the others
3. Speak to other men.
Flirt with other men.
Do unspeakable things with other men
(preferably in a questionable bathroom
in the back of your favorite dive bar.)
Be a slut
until you stop seeing his face
molded onto a stranger's head
while he fucks you.
4. Sli
My chest is an empty library:
full
(though with naivety instead of books)
but silent—
especially in those moments
when I forget how to make my heart beat,
like when you play with my hair
at 3AM.
My spine is a twisted tree limb:
worn and chipped
by the rain of bitter tears
and the icy words of ex-lovers,
but still strong enough
to hold both of us
up.
My tongue is a pen
writing calligraphy
into the warmth of your skin,
punctuated at your lips—
my signature a novel
written on your neck.
My soul is a metaphor
used to awkwardly describe
the symptoms
of a body in love.
The fifth stroke of midnight carries her to my satin sheets
where she sits like a lover,
waiting to fill my glass
with sweet hallucinations
And she tells me she loves me
in a voice as lyrical as yours,
touches me with fingers soft as yours
but her lips feel new
as they brush like feathers against mine
(though this I choose to ignore)
Anxious arms reach for her,
longing to hold onto your memory
but she vanishes
in a cloud of emerald smoke
that smells of loneliness
and the must of your perfume
And as I sip from a full glass,
I am left with nothing
but the ghost of your memory
and sweet hallucinations
Ever since I was little
I thought my voice was made for silence-
for singing silly songs
in the privacy of my loneliness
and to be kept quiet otherwise
because who would listen to me?
And I’d sing and sing like a little blue bird
kept all alone
in a cage made of solitude
because that was what I thought I was meant for-
what I deserved
but my voice is not for silly songs
no, this voice was meant for more
it was meant for everything.
My voice was meant for speaking,
for sending my thoughts and feelings into the air
so that they may be found by another
who may see them helpful,
profound.
Because my words are important,
they carry the wei
As night sets over this city of sinners, the hypnotizing, pulsing beat of electronica rises over the silence from a little haven forged out of a large, abandoned warehouse in the projects. For just a little while, until the sun barges in to tell everyone the fun is over and to head back to their 9-5’s, there is nothing but the rave.
You press your way in and let the man by the door place a tab of hallucinogen-soaked paper on your tongue. You don’t know for sure what it is, but he’s always got something good, so you take it into your mouth and give him a wink as you pass by. He only gives the good shit to his favorites
How to Break My Heart by Weird-and-proud-LOL, literature
Literature
How to Break My Heart
Sit me down
with something important to tell me,
and let the poison of tense silence fill my lungs
like blackened smoke
Hold my hand
and give me bittersweet kisses,
hoping not to taste my salty tears
when you lean in
and whisper in my ear,
'I never liked The Catcher in the Rye'