Sunday, January 15, 2012

Happiness

the ghetto flowers
could swallow an airplane
with those butterfly eyes
flickering like they're caught
between radio stations

the brevity of ghosts
twisting off my lips
vanishing as they always do

some things are expected

a little roman finds a mark antony

and we watch airplanes
traveling into the orange forever-long
the color of goodbyes
the day expiring and losing complexion

butterflies will die

and when the C battery explodes
(the one i was told not to put in the fire)
stars will rain down
(in a 30 ft radius)
and I will be scraped and I will be burned

and I will be

happy

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