after you've been burned
a time or two hundred,
you start to wonder if your heart pumps
gasoline instead of blood
because people strike like matches
the way you suddenly combust
and even California
looks like hellfire and brimstone
when there's no one left to trust.
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melancholia in the milky way
Poetrymelancholia in the milky way is a poetry collection carved from misery and heartbreak; it is loving and being loved through the hardships, and it is searching the turmoil for specks of hope with a telescope. i'll post snippets here, but the full boo...
