there is a tooth mark marking it

k.r.
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there is a tooth mark marking it

phase 002
book 015
font: pepetua
Draft Book *
there is a tooth mark marking it

001 001
maybetopia 002
crescent 003
empty calories 004
kids playing house 005
patrick as tripod 006
dumb birthday 007
frat boy 008
night anthem 009
circus peanuts 010
nest 011
impression 012

poems and design by kristian hayley

001

caverns in the heart,

canyons, grand holes
in between the ribs

there is earth in your blood

we’re young enough to know this

eat crayons until the days gone

we’re old enough to do this

this,
what we feel is unearthly
alien, surly

it’s unwritten poems

and unfelt feelings

it’s not the actuals

and it’s maybe the maybes

maybetopia

get your hair out of the wind

pull down on your left ear
let your neck open from the side

“it is natural to be in nature”

it is my innate fear

the bugs all over me

sad how i’m no longer lonely
i heard the fox sneer
i’m too busy / i’m sorry
the bugs all over me
sad how i’m no longer lonely
i heard the fox sneer
i’m too busy / i’m sorry
the bugs all over me
sad how i’m no longer lonely
i heard the fox sneer
i’m too busy / i’m sorry

i was sworn into silence,

yeah, i know, you don’t buy it

crescent

i begin at the first rib

my hand a spider
my hand wanted

i go down to the next rib

to the next rib

to your stomach
to your hips
to your…

empty calories

at the show
front row
perhaps i’m more
attractive from behind

i never look eye to eye

not because i’m afraid
i just like to be aware

(now that was a lie)

on top of down town roof tops

i talked about ways time could stop

i talked over myself

i talked over myself
i talked over myself
i talked over myself

say that 4 times fast

in a bathroom mirror
tongue tied so bad
you start saying you
miss her

go on,
say you miss her

kids playing house

i brought some glue,

the bad kind,
because this was done the bad way
without any warning signs

i brought some scissors,

the cheap kind,
because this was done the cheap way
and the cheap way is just fine

patrick as tripod

we swept the city

of lonely hearts and all but
the wild loveless sound

of lost motorcars;
but the question still remains,
where are you in this?

endorsement of affection,

swaeafa ay your eye, the waltz of a

pupil

2 determine if, or if not, we're futile

lmp wings never catch wind.

each comet a glaicer,

lost in the melt of several thousand

stars

unfair and terrifying stupid ends

rhe old tired legs of day

active attempts at acting

sworn into silence

worn, slighted

dumb birthday

i have not forgotten to wish it to you

and it is not something i plan to do
what purpose will it serve?
and what cake will i be served?

frat boy

i walked into the room

incredibly slowly
feeling sad and lonely

so i tore me
a smile off the wall
and wore it like it was mine

this is something i do
from time to time

it works like a charm

and a charm is just fine






























night anthem

your weird opening

night,
its alien eye
growing big
bigger than the largest insect
brighter than the sun

it was all green & shit --

the frogs in your hair
and i in you

circus peanuts

tiny strings detach

you start drifting
i’m still attached

above,
words and worlds swirl
lights explodes as galaxies implode
off we go,

tired but beautiful

nowhere opens for me

stars in starlit skies…

nest

marbled thighs
moonlit,
artisans
drive
mason-jar-cars
off a
c
l
i
f
f
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how did we get to the step above the staircase?

glass with wheels

woman sans heels
frosh week
knees weak
3 4 5 is a steal

and now
with my eyes gone bad,
too tired to remember the better times we had
i feel worse about you and better about us
the bird returns and makes the nest
the bird returns to finally rest
the eggs are in your basket
the best part of me is in your casket
and we step up to the plate
homerun, mayonnaise
glibber glabber maze
witch which was which
you shoulda seen the look on your face
the bird returns to make her nest
i welcome you back with my casts
and my arms outrsteched

the bird returns and makes the nest

the bird returns too finally rest
the eggs are in your basket
the best part of me is in your casket
and we step up to the plate
homerun, mayonnaise
glibber glabber maze
witch which was which
you shoulda seen the look on your face
the bird returns to make her nest
i welcome you back with my casts
and my arms outrsteched

the bird returns and makes the nest

the bird returns too finally rest
the eggs are in your basket
the best part of me is in your casket
and we step up to the plate
homerun, mayonnaise
glibber glabber maze
witch which was which
you shoulda seen the look on your face
the bird returns to make her nest
i welcome you back with my casts
and my arms outrsteched

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 01 02

i was sworn into silence
i know you don’t buy it

the bird returned

and tipped over
his nest

impression

there is a toothmark marking it

softer than ever

the impression isn’t anything like that

it isn’t anything like the last

(i’d even go so far as to say
that this is the last)

i will never meet anyone else

i will have no need to
if i was a norse god
i’d spent my eternity
looking for the one & only

to think
all of this time
you could have been here saying:
“i’ve been asleep right under your nose
i’ve been asleep right beside you”