“I Have No Enemies, But My Friends Don’t Like Me.”

If you wanna love the world, where do you start?

I wanna write a story

about the sun that was once my chest,

about the cloud that was once my head,

about reaching for air, how I was finally able

to fill my lungs with a single breath,

how I've learned about peace and then heard

something inside me crack.

If you wanna love the world, where do you start?

I move too fast, it's my thing

to set a pace and outrun it;

it's my thing to collect my tears just in case

all drinking water gets poisoned -

can only hope that I've cried enough

so I won't die of thirst.

If you wanna love the world, where do you start?

'Cause I can feel like I'm about to break,

again;

I remember so very clearly

how I was making deals back then

for just a splinter of, not joy,

but potential.

Cycles over cycles, little athlete, tell me -

didn't you pass yourself a million times?

Do you still mourn the dreams

you once had when you were more than stuck

and just needed to get out?

If you wanna love the world, step by step,

how do you do that without needing to resurrect;

I found my place in the world and came back from the dead,

but casket diaries, they become quite exhausting -

take a second, just imagine it,

it's no fun anymore the millionth time

'cause I know by now

how my coffin's shaped and

my fear has turned to resignation.

So how does it come the sun still hurts as badly,

so how does it come that the light on my skin

still feels like it did on the first day?

You deserve the love you keep trying to give everyone else.

a comic about cuddles

Well you can't always be depressed or sad, at some point you have to smile ＼(◎o◎)／ because Why Not?

“It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.”

- Unknown

Bottlecap Press

I'm Hungry, Please Come Home, by frankie bb

Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Hunger is the engine in this little book. Like all books, this one is a cookbook for tu

From frankie bb's chapbook, I'm Hungry, Please Come Home, available from Bottlecap Press!

enduring love

e.m forster, a room with a view / atonement (2007) / thomas hardy, far from the madding crowd / portrait of a lady on fire (2019) / cassandra clare, city of glass / rainer maria rilke / giovanni gasparro / philip pullman, the amber spyglass.

Me irl