Paperweight Poetry

Sometimes we let love turn us into rabid dogs For in the same way that they foam at the mouth  And crack their own teeth trying to bite through the fence And run so wild that they snap their own spines We are the same  We break our necks for the lovers that will just break our hearts.  -anna sluder

You said loving me was too great of a task Like trying to fit a car inside of a shoe And if even so, why didn't you ask If I was ready to call it and say we're through But instead you cocked back your head to chug that flask Whispering "Time of death 10:42"  -anna sluder

There are places to be People to see But you are the place I want to be The only person I want to see.  -anna sluder

When I say it's a long story I really mean it's a short story I just don't want to tell it When I say it's complicated I really mean it's quite simple I just don't know if I can explain it And when you say you're sorry and I say it's okay I really mean that it's really not okay that it happened but it's okay that you feel sorry for me And when I say it was a long time ago  I really mean that time doesn't make me forget I just like to pretend like that it does  And for the second time you say that you're sorry because you don't know what else to say and I say it's not your fault I really mean that I am trying to think of thousand ways of under the sun that it is and isn't my fault  And when I say you don't have to comfort me, that it's not your job I really mean oh god please comfort me because I wish there was somebody that had that job, and because I have no one  So when I say one thing I rarely ever mean

I would rather you break all my bones Than break my heart  Set me on fire As long as you don't keep me from love I just thought you should I know I'd rather  You take my body than my mind  I just thought you should know.  -anna sluder