It's not the perfection in which
this piece was written, it's the musician...

Honestly? I gazed out of the fingerprinted windows
at school about every eleven minutes, hoping the...

Rock me to sleep, you're thinking.
I see it in the way you curl like a lost...

No one would ever imagine the
waves of terror and raw emotion...

Sometimes I wonder if I'm only good for keeping my...
expressionless, not replying because maybe if I...

Dinner was late today, swinging out at 7 pm
with my mother commenting that the lasagna...

You are the water, I am the land.
Boats sneak past your conscious...

Perked up on Ecstasy, the other day she snorted...
from a Motel 8 bathroom, from his mouth...

I am plagued with routine regret
at a bedside where I exhale in the arms...

I am the dust here;
I cannot carry your...

I'm hesitant,
because here we sit so calmly...

You are told this is how a young man
finds honor, that to die for one's country...