"I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not."
drinking too much too often. wandering around big cities. conversations.
i like sitting in a small twenty-four hour place in my town,
drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes,
both of which i cannot afford.
your game kids, i'm just playing it.
“If I die a lonely death, I’m sure it’s from the cigarettes
I smoked each after you left me standing all alone.
Alone in my Park Avenue apartment that smelled fresh and new.
The extra set of keys from you are going to the maid.
The maid has been my only friend;
she’s always there to apprehend
the dust and grim that settles in around the crystal vase.
The crystal vase, a wedding gift, that through the years has made the shift.
What once held flowers now holds ash from my two packs a day.”
