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Rome: Poems
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“A monster
Someone who left me in the dark
Someone who darkened me
A million times over”
― Rome: Poems
Someone who left me in the dark
Someone who darkened me
A million times over”
― Rome: Poems
“A monster
Someone who left me in the dark
Someone who darkened me
A million times over”
― Rome: Poems
Someone who left me in the dark
Someone who darkened me
A million times over”
― Rome: Poems
“And I go looking looking for you in the streets
And I never find you
I never find you at all”
― Rome: Poems
And I never find you
I never find you at all”
― Rome: Poems
“It is as if I had made you believe
In me once again
It is as if you knew I was your true love
It was as if I didn't have to know
In this life
All you were to me
Was that flower”
― Rome: Poems
In me once again
It is as if you knew I was your true love
It was as if I didn't have to know
In this life
All you were to me
Was that flower”
― Rome: Poems
“What's worse
To never have them
To have them only in part
What's worse
To be endlessly waiting
To be endlessly waiting
What's worse—nothing or nothing
What's worse”
― Rome: Poems
To never have them
To have them only in part
What's worse
To be endlessly waiting
To be endlessly waiting
What's worse—nothing or nothing
What's worse”
― Rome: Poems
“You were
Something or someone I loved
But I am a traveler
And I love no one
But the empty road”
― Rome: Poems
Something or someone I loved
But I am a traveler
And I love no one
But the empty road”
― Rome: Poems
“But death is the ultimate blissfulness
To be a candy or a corpse
The world holds you on its tongue
And no one can save you”
― Rome: Poems
To be a candy or a corpse
The world holds you on its tongue
And no one can save you”
― Rome: Poems
“To get rejected so vehemently
Over and over again
Until some said it was the rejection I was after
No it wasn't
I wanted the intensity that you sometimes promised”
― Rome: Poems
Over and over again
Until some said it was the rejection I was after
No it wasn't
I wanted the intensity that you sometimes promised”
― Rome: Poems
“I want you to kiss me hard hard
In the nighttime
And not give up
I don’t want to be a thing
I want to be becoming”
― Rome: Poems
In the nighttime
And not give up
I don’t want to be a thing
I want to be becoming”
― Rome: Poems
“The sugar the ice on planets and stars
The romance of the evening
Coated in ice from your dead flesh
Already rotting from within”
― Rome: Poems
The romance of the evening
Coated in ice from your dead flesh
Already rotting from within”
― Rome: Poems
“The blue night with trees
Everything told me to feel something
And yet everything you said was a lie
And all my emotions were for nothing”
― Rome: Poems
Everything told me to feel something
And yet everything you said was a lie
And all my emotions were for nothing”
― Rome: Poems
“There were things I wished I'd said
And done
But it is too late now
So I go
Heavy with my offering
This book, this book”
― Rome: Poems
And done
But it is too late now
So I go
Heavy with my offering
This book, this book”
― Rome: Poems
“You will realize you love me
But it will be too late
You will cry out for me
I will be long gone
This is not a wish
But what I knew to be so”
― Rome: Poems
But it will be too late
You will cry out for me
I will be long gone
This is not a wish
But what I knew to be so”
― Rome: Poems
“I will go back and forth and never be”
― Rome: Poems
― Rome: Poems
“You are the kind of thing who takes from me
And never gives anything away
And when you call to me with your synchronicity
I can't help but run to you
You my horrible star
I can't help but run to you when you call for me”
― Rome: Poems
And never gives anything away
And when you call to me with your synchronicity
I can't help but run to you
You my horrible star
I can't help but run to you when you call for me”
― Rome: Poems
“And I am so alone
And I am alone here
With the idea of ghosts
And the idea of humanity, which is a cruel idea”
― Rome: Poems
And I am alone here
With the idea of ghosts
And the idea of humanity, which is a cruel idea”
― Rome: Poems
“Now you come to my street in the sunrise
and hold me
There are things you want to say but don’t
There are things I want to say but I already said them”
― Rome: Poems
and hold me
There are things you want to say but don’t
There are things I want to say but I already said them”
― Rome: Poems
“Lilaced thing
The soft rustle of beetle wings
In air that is warm and grey
And is not strong”
― Rome: Poems
The soft rustle of beetle wings
In air that is warm and grey
And is not strong”
― Rome: Poems
“What is the dull river Lethe
I don't know, but I think it's evil
And when I drink of it I don't see stars
Instead I see the lime groves”
― Rome: Poems
I don't know, but I think it's evil
And when I drink of it I don't see stars
Instead I see the lime groves”
― Rome: Poems
“A voice said to me, in summer language: Dottie, you are blessed
And I felt the yellow light of the sun eating my face”
― Rome: Poems
And I felt the yellow light of the sun eating my face”
― Rome: Poems
