i hear your words in binary
by Dementis

i met you in junior high school
when we were young and dumb,
but your lily white wide-eyed innocence
had me trapped beneath your thumb.

( this is dedicated to a girl who is suffering addiction. internet high and facebook drunk and shielded by her ficton )

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no money back guarantee
by Dementis

i am waiting at a bus stop
for a bus that will never come.

you gave me the directions here
and said you'd be here waiting,
but as soon as someone better came along,
you left me in the cold.

( you said once that i was irreplaceable. you lied. )

divorce feels like a headstone, and this marriage is a grave
by dementis

( we split everything fifty-fifty, but you took my half instead of yours. )

song for funerals
by dementis

i. denialyou were always an empty seat ( Read more... )

i.
i was a small speck of moon rock caught out of orbit
and you were a planet,
and to all of your oceans and landscapes,
i had been nothing but stardust.

( falling stars are not romantic; they are often preludes to catastrophe. )

a feat of unequaled measure ( Read more... )

i. away

it's almost funny,
so funny that i can substitute the echoes of your hollow memory-laughter
for mine.
i am trying to imitate your voice
in vacant hallways,
and the echoes that call my own name back to me
are mine.

( More under cut )

note to self
by Dementis

keys in the ignition.
sitting there, idle.
just go already.

it makes an ASS of U and ME
by Dementis

it is almost two in the morning here in my matchbox of a house,
and i am awake,
a temporary insomniac,
listening to Taylor Mali
while, outside,

the world is quiet
and cold.speaking of cold, my house is freezing ( Read more... )