Submissions by WhatIUsedToBe

no cape, no tights
an ego - banging air into a glass bottle.
verbose but hollow speech
puffing false authority
and an emblazoned S on your chest-
I'd love to scratch the scar into it permanent.

more my brother than my lover
two anti-heroes
and I would have been more happy to
just talk to you all night in our underoos.

all the best cowboys have mommy issues
looking for every fleshy inch of approval
but we both know
it could have been better
base and not boring-
for a performance and my
reaching for something inhumane...

this limb is diseased

not only shocked but removed

and begging on the ground,

littering rejections -

The bored breeze keeps bringing back.



It is praying for connection

with the source of pain

a sappy blood lust

for gaffs and spurs and choppy bark



“Just hold up this broken dream

and I can secure it with wire and rope.”

We grow into ourselves

and the rope and the wire

become part of the scar

we’ll only slide our tender hands and tongues over.
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