So striking, I swear you leveled me with a look, reminded me of my breathing patterns, ran your hands through the grease and set fire to my face, seduced a love to grief and left the same as you came

This is not a call to arms, this is a celebration. We should be dead by now so we've exceeded expectations. We've seen so many rise and fall taken so many beatings.

If you go calling anybody else, make sure they value your smile and hold tight to you all of the time. I know I'm losing a friend and I can't help it.

I could love and drown in your goddamn smile lines

I don't want you and I don't need you. Don't bother to resist or I'll beat you. It's not your fault that you're always wrong, the weak ones are there to justify the strong

But the truth is, you were never there. Sometimes I think I'm not either, so what do I do when every day still seems to start and end with you? And you won't ever know, you won't ever see, how much your ghost since then has been defining me.

I know I should've moved on ages ago, been happy already, but it's never been that easy for me. Or maybe it was me that made it so hard.

On a bathroom wall I wrote, 'I'd rather argue with you than be with someone else.' I... dismiss it and went and found somebody else.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

The real hair and real eyes get real guys. So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind