a poem from GHOST GFS
by catch business
just like me
loud enough so
you can like me
i ask if you’ve cheated
or if you would
and we decide
if you want her
you will tell me
you don’t have to
i hear her
in your pill-dry voice
fringed elements
of our emotions
you say we need to work on us
that there is no me in me now
so what else can i show you?
other than the limbs bent before you
i believed i would never bend again
not for her not for your love of her
and not for a fantasy of three
as if these possibilities
occurred outside of the we
she defined for you
to use on me
lesson plans to reflect
intrigue with your clumsy tongue
invitations carried thru
the nameless crowd
she asked to sit near you
behind a sequined mask
i could’ve become
a chance for you to feel
what she made you feel
Catch Business is the author of GHOST GFS (Electric Cereal, 2015) and Able To / Always Will (CCM, 2016). Follow her on Tumblr and Twitter.
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