Empty Room

Mattress in an apartment
Building not completely
Abandoned but certainly
Left behind defenestrate
Hells bells holding on
By a windowsill

Just a bit of chocolate
Could bring out my best Superman
Why is she hunting me down
Pheromones heightened
Scent of a lover or
Leftover shudders

Obviously something there
Flowers in the courtyard
Down below the whistling
Of a passerby and a possibility
Dry heat dry hump
Clothing pressed against me
Breathe deep long and wide

How did we get here anyway
It’s all so confusing yet
Laying here looking at the ceiling
Somehow I’m glad that
It happened

Are we bad or is this good?
The stoics would say it’s neither
I can hear river music in my head
Too many things to do
Before we’re dead
Many reasons to keep alive
A mattress, you and me
And an otherwise
Empty room

© GÄ

Ossify

I’m doing such a good job keeping alive
It’s almost lonely
Bone strengthening
Some might say

Like calcium deposits

It’s tooth grinding the way you were
Baiting me with obituaries
How disgustingly coy

Projecting infantile rage
All over me in a figurative food fight
With spit and disdain
I can only say that
I don’t blame other people
For my shortcomings

If I should also have a death
Happen upon me I’ll remember
To reach out and apologize
For not being a good friend to you

I should like to return the favor

After all that love spent
You’ve left me ossified

© GÄ