Before you let me down
again...

I thought perhaps beauty
belonged to those girls who giggled about...

Inevitably I'm a mess;
with my emotions all strewn about...

Last Friday I twirled around a club
called "The Break&quot...

Truth is a conspiracy
said the mindless tongue...

Soon
I'll lose him...

Words perch
on my tongue...

I dreamed of you last night
for reasons unbeknown...

Love, like nature
has its teeth (all pointy with malefic intent...

It's late here in Carolina
and the crickets are chirping...

I am fascinated more
by distance...

I feel silly sometimes,
recalling the ways I behaved...