NO SOLICITORS PLEASE

Leave me alone, 

The door is etched with sidewalk scratches

Blood or chalk will paint my walls. 

My phone case smells of last tuesday, my breath

Smells of you. We celebrate our angst with massacres. 

I’ve been stretched apart and taped back together, 

Banded like pangaea, my tectonic plates frail from my inner 

Earthquakes. 

My inner earth. 

The crust has always been cracked

But have you ever seen 

Raw gold molten?

 

crisscross

NY

17 years old

More by crisscross

  • Release

    She was born in the radiation era, 
    A veil of marble covers her eyes,

    Her lids webbed in waves: 

    They were stitched too tight

    to permit the penetration 

    of the perpetrator.

  • supernova

    when a star dies, it is a violent explosion.

    it can emitt more light than an entire solar system.

    and while it pulses with hot gas and blue light,

    it slowly dims. until its remnants are scattered