as you please

they lived inside an anachronistic say and do as you please lifestyle. dropping big money on unnecessary things. thick lacquered attitude and everybody seemed to love it from a streaming screen or screaming distance. if you were on the other side of it you were most likely confounded by transactional condescension in a nanoplastic wind. no you cannots on the tip of your tongue. coming out all nods and smiles.  #katyamills

the Great War

i follow the roads 

where they rise

the surface of the skin

with my eyes

this one ends 

in an inch long scar

in the ditch of my arm

i blew it up 

long ago

so the enemy 

could not cross

in the great war

for my heart

#katyamills

coordinated thing

it's a coordinated thing, doctor healing patient then making love to a nurse, lights down, in the operating theatre. it's anarchy, ballet slippers breaking apart, toenail cracking. a shot of anaesthetic... it's coming out of it, tossing and sick, creeping toward war.   #katyamills

lost cause

they believed

how i got no problems

and living this great life

i was too ashamed to tell 

the truth 

 down and disturbed

harming myself

hurting you when it wasn't

me

i was the relationship i had to work through

break the default state 

of fear and hate

become someone 

not a lost

cause

#katyamills

eventuality

becoming 

who we are not 

in a world which loves us 

more that way we are 

destined to figure out 

by process of elimination

who we always

were

#katyamills

the life

i drank the poison 

telling all the pained faces 

like the starling takes the wind when the storm comes

let it try to take 

the life

#katyamills

to Safeways

i race into my tights jeans jacket 

step into muk-luks 

to Safeways 2 see you

you tell me u cannot 

you really cannot 

understaffed they are watching 

i wish 2 god u could i 

need you right now 

doomscrolling at Dutch Bros 

in this draught of 

giants

#katyamills

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