deborah brandon














SUICIDE SUMMER















SUICIDE SUMMER

Suicide summer & I am stunted. I slake my sadness starving. Nights pull out into the opposite lane to roar past days. My ribs more visible on the daily, I shove the book I'm writing into hypoxia. Thick draws from cigarettes. Hours of nothing else on my lips. Days. My friend, now gone, would never have stood for this. I leave a white rose on the windowsill of the room in which she died, find my name and infinity signs etched into the balcony, know this cannot last forever.


















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