There is
Pushing and wanting, and then
There is
Simply wanting.
Ghosts with flesh
Decorate themselves
With wooden eyes
And push away cities
While wandering city streets
For winterless blankets.
Solid ghosts want to rest in snow
because
Hypothermia is safe.
Hypothermia doesn't forgive.
Hypothermia smoothes out
The screwed knots inside them.
people don't see the difference.
people grab air.
people keep what all they know.
I grab blank pages and hold on
to what I know,
and I listen:
a mother yells,
'keep that cliched angst out of the house!'
as she throws heavy words out the door.
The real girls let others
Take the needle and thread
When they are brave with lucid fear.
They find futures,
Ways to age and wrinkle
And sing with closed mouths.
They want a teacher to show them this life,
How to steadily stand on stilts.
These girls want and want and want
To keep out the guilt while knowing
They are not innocent
To stretch out sore muscles
And hunch over littered desks
To know what's enough and accept
That they never could be enough.
These girls want to want something
That won't push them into those cheating wells.
I sigh and frown until my forehead almost cracks
Because my vacant words frustrate me
And even that can't seem to fill them.
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