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I fucking hate poetry

Every beautifully-broken    
poetess tossed over    
by a lover
looks like my future.  
   
I hate poetry  
so much the sight of a pen    
makes my lip curl in    
contempt.    
   
(because I love you)    
(because I hate it.)  
   
Because I feel like a goddess    
as your gentle lips    
deluge my senses,  
distracting me from the    
feel of your rough hands    
as they grab a block    
and    
sand me down    
   
until I’m so brittle    
that you hang me on    
your window  
like a suncatcher    
no longer blocking the light,  
but palely reflecting    
my own sickly colors on a    
bare spot    
on the floor.    
   
I love the demented way    
I curl up to your hand,    
catlike and purring    
as you trace the thin string    
that leaves me hanging,    
and whole against the    
light of the window,    
   
and I love the way that    
wicked smile of yours,    
sends chills down my back    
as you toy with me,    
rock me    
back and forth,    
watching the wash of    
all that I am    
paint a patina    
across your feet,    
   
as we both wonder if    
(when)  
you’re going to    
let me  
fall.    
   
(And, I love you.)    
(and, i hate it.)  
   
One day    
you will drop me    
not to see me shatter into dust,  
not to paint the world anew    
in the ashes of me    
I could respect that shit, you know    
I would hand myself over right now,    
humping a flame thrower  
for that.    
   
No, one day you’ll drop me    
because you have to  
and I’ll let you    
(because  
I love you)  
   
(because I hate you)    
   
And I wish I could    
find the balls to say    
“let’s walk away    
while I can still    
survive.”  
   
Instead,    
I slide into your lap,    
press a rougher grade  
of sandpaper    
into your hands,    
and my lips against    
your jaw and    
   
ask you to    
hand me a pen,    
darling,  
   
I feel inspired.    
   
 
Written by Betty
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