empty

Stepmother Tongue

@bosonbrain

I no longer speak
My native tongue.
She feels foreign
Like a steroid growth
Ever sprouting empty plosives
And vowels uncommitted.

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on the 18:36

alander

a crisp packet lies Seasalt
and empty on the table
open, like a basking-shark, its jaws
swallowing, silver-dark the corner
of my Smoky Bacon

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on the 18:36

alander

a crisp packet lies Seasalt
and empty on the table
open, like a basking-shark, its jaws
swallowing, silver-dark the corner
of my Smoky Bacon

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Marylin Manroe

Moyo

Klinks of empty bottles on concrete
lazy heat not flowing…
sloshing about in puddles,
blowing in my hair..
my hair?
yes
and

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When my little cup spills

amelia

When my little cup spills and is empty, a desert overtakes my mind
words evaporate and I become a cactus
still, gathering strength

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Hunger

Elle

empty..
the scent
of starch..
fills his
rice bowl…

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House

Elle

empty house..
our shadows
still on the walls…

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Untitled

rachel9990

all i am is a body
no more, no less.
how can i, so empty
become such a mess.

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