ugh… see what i mean?
my borderline brain is a malformation of gooey tissue,
an absurd abyss of the paradox,
a glitch in the matrix
spawning, spreading, sickening.
oh i know i‘ll be alright. but not tonight. oh i know it‘ll be okay. someday. i didn’t lose my mind. it was never mine. just a prescribed ride. peel off my skins, taste the fuel running through my veins, the ink forming my flesh, thick dust covering my bones, a long lost free sample made of generic genetics. oh i know i’m just some girl made of spikes and waves. but what if i’m a pearl in a rusty cage! hold me, kiss me, release me. see me, hear me, believe me. leave (with) me, maybe?
i don’t sign my poems with my name, because it never belonged to me. i don’t even like it.
julia. named after John Lennon’s dead, estranged mom; killed by a drunk driver.
julie. a nickname given to me by my estranged, mostly dead family; killed by their own hands or some degenerate time-delayed virus.
jules. nobody ever called me that. i like that name the best.
radford. divorced abuser history.
gehrlein. dead dad history.