the skeleton in my cake
want to have my cake and eat it too
fill up on sweet gestures and sticky lies
swallowing feelings like a dry bread
choking on quick bites
i feel like a bloated whale
ready to explode and cover you in my insides
or maybe just vomit on the floor
i’ve bitten off more than i can chew
all of the other girls
eat whatever they want
sharp ribs and revealing clothes like secrets
maybe i’ll become a skeleton too
Raspberry Roses
I met you in a church
Even though you never believed in God.
You were so young then, you were so young then.
Clocks made our monsters real.
I had never been in love before,
I listened to my name sung on the radio.
Life was far away, unrealized.
People never looked at me.
I wish for a lot of things,
And not one of them was you.
You licked your life off the floor,
You thought about death more than I did.
Babe, I know, love is a funny thing.
Heretic Jesus lays with his Marys.
I was alone once, and I will end that way.
Understand that angels will bid goodbye.
You will eat your words,
The first and third should taste of you.
You came dancing through the telephone.
I just can’t be alone, I just can’t be alone.
A metamorphic paradise,
Clearly I’m a contradiction,
I lost myself out there, so don’t ask me,
I’ve gone insane.
I can’t do the things I do,
I don’t want to do them.
I can’t breathe without my lungs,
I can’t live without you.
I want to go home even when I’m home,
I want to be safe from everything.
Held in your arms, the night doesn’t feel so cold.
The hole in my head grows whole.