Small Hands - Keaton Henson
June 2013
Poets say things like
“you smell like December and broken glass.”
But I’ll never be a poet
and the only smell I associate with you is
ginger green tea
and the leather bound books
that you hide in your back pocket.
I loved you like choking on a cherry pit.
I loved you like a leafless tree.
I loved you like 3 shots of whiskey
and half a pack of cigarettes
and it’s summer
and we’re stupid
and you really have no clue at all.
Some people search the night sky for some sort of greater meaning.
I search for the right words to string together,
to form a single sentence saying:
Fuck this feeling, just please come back.
We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
it is as if
the sun has become disgusted with
waiting
Finish by Charles Bukowski