by Alina Marks

Created on: February 08, 2009

Relationship Pending:

Clean sheets. Communication
is a one-way street. The sign
between us says: No Talking.
It is better to be quiet, to be
right, correct, precise.

A cigarette on the balcony
is no escape. Sour breath
and a wine soaked tongue
are not the perfumes
of an elegant woman.

Your skin is leather. I stick
to the couch. Meanwhile,
television reruns
play the language
of a mirrored identity.

We've already
seen this one.

Can you crawl inside
to fix the broken parts?
Is that you bleeding?
Or is it me?

She is the girl
who loves someone else.
I am you. You are me. She is I.
We are the one's who break hearts.

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