Using Names

I just had to boast of course

Madison would put me

in one of her circles of hell

I feel like a bird

singing out a confused song

and Zack said only simple emotions

write songs

flaws are truly the most

attractive thing on earth

tea leaves

I look up at the leaves falling
oracles, all of them

I think the word "future"
a leaf drifts, an aimless paper plane,
through cold sunlight

doors swing open inside me
the doors to the
cage where I used to keep
the butterflies

grey cat

yeah—I trained my cat to be just like me
so he's mean, you know, he'll bite you in the face
I like to let him claw me up, the pain is nice
and the scratch marks look kind of cool

I named him Mr. Shankly, after a Smiths song
and frankly, he is an ass
grey striped, small bodied, a bundle of fear

people prolly all become their pets eventually

rises in east, sets in west

I am so scared

that one day

your eyes will glitter

as they reflect the rising sun

over the Atlantic,

and where I am it will still be dark.

And when I wake, I will only feel

the weight of the clouds

on my eyelids,

so I will go back to sleep, back to where

I can still kiss you.

You rise in the East,

I set in the West.

Called by nickname,
"Chi, they're all faggots"
Cody is quietly watching the
Bengals get their asses kicked
and resisting his laughter

I adjust my socks and wait for
my phone to light up
and move across the table

full of kinetic energy