I just burned your name.
I watched the deathgray spread, smoking out
the fire on your letters
tried to scald your promise.
I have said goodbye so many many times
& keep finding little reminders, or they find me, or they already know me, or I them
I can see them behind my closed eyelids
little burns on my eyeballs always.
but I burned your name
& I couldn't ever say your good name. let's someone else say it for you
because I'm a giveme, we know
and you've ataken
which makes it all a part of it all.
scrapes, now, ashes
those letters
just stuff
on the wind
forever, dead like forever.
period
period
period
