my fingers are on strike
or something like that.
they refuse to work for my brain.
they won’t write any more words at all.
but i’ve had so many thoughts lately.
thoughts alive with colors dripping from my
eyelashes, after they fell from the sky
laughter cascading down a water slide in an inflatable tube,
sunburnt and chlorine soaked, accidentally swallowed your bubblegum
a campfire midnight, holding marshmallow sticky hands
talking about building a ladder to the stars, intermittently tasting the salt on your lips
abstract dreams and their flapper-dance, backflip, sunset energy
grabbing the english language by the wrist and dragging him
out of his chair for a few songs
words and words and words tumble out of my thoughts,
tiny acrobats leaping over each other,
they rush through my nerves to find their exit but as soon as they reach my knuckles they find a dead end.
so here i am
typing with my nose because i don’t know how much longer i can comfortably keep them in
or something like that.
they refuse to work for my brain.
they won’t write any more words at all.
but i’ve had so many thoughts lately.
thoughts alive with colors dripping from my
eyelashes, after they fell from the sky
laughter cascading down a water slide in an inflatable tube,
sunburnt and chlorine soaked, accidentally swallowed your bubblegum
a campfire midnight, holding marshmallow sticky hands
talking about building a ladder to the stars, intermittently tasting the salt on your lips
abstract dreams and their flapper-dance, backflip, sunset energy
grabbing the english language by the wrist and dragging him
out of his chair for a few songs
words and words and words tumble out of my thoughts,
tiny acrobats leaping over each other,
they rush through my nerves to find their exit but as soon as they reach my knuckles they find a dead end.
so here i am
typing with my nose because i don’t know how much longer i can comfortably keep them in
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Noruinin
Mar 06, 2018
This is wonderful. The imagery is on point, and I loved the ending!