Button Poetry

Hi, Hello, My Name Is...

Poet : Katie Higgins

Hi. My dad's got a Smith & Wesson in his closet, but it gets lonely just like I do so I like to kiss it on the cheek sometimes.
Hi, some sunshine fell out of my pocket a long time ago and now I can't stop seeing rain clouds.
Hi, my sister eats just as much as I do and that's not a lot, I can taste her weight loss, it's all stomach acid and guilt on my tongue and it feels like my fault.
Hi, I started drinking in 2013 and I stopped drinking in 2013 when I realized I could down a bottle of red wine faster than my dad.

Confession: I started drinking again
I wanted to feel something
I don't like the idea of liquid courage in my belly
I am BURNING from the inside out.

Hi, my name's "I'm closer to my dad's gun than I am to my Dad."
Hi, my name's "I don't believe in God anymore, but I see him everywhere"
It's like, it's like he's following me
Says "You can call yourself a pacifist when you stop beating the shit out of yourself"

Hi, my name is Katie, I'm the biggest coward I know
I'm all bark
I'm only bite on accident
I am half a trigger pull
I'm crying and I don't know how to stop, dear God.
I'd like to thank you. For making me a coward, you see.

I wouldn't be alive if I wasn't so afraid of dying.