who said that I wanted your affection
maybe I just needed you to make me feel less alive
*
you look at me like there’s something wrong
with me
but you’re smiling
*
you tell me who I am
and I believe you against my better judgement
and I feel my body getting smaller
*
when I saw my father’s expression
on your face
on my face
I should have known better
*
and we drove to a place
that belonged to us only
and we screamed at the pretences
below us because we ran out of words
*
you told me to swallow my tongue
and I grew poetry in my stomach
Croque-Melpomene 