Don’t let them see you cry Don’t let them see you weak Don’t give them any indication That you’re human Because if they know you can bleed Then they know that they can kill you And if you’re mortal It means they own you Shave your head To keep their fingers out of your hair And swing whatever weapons you can make From what you’ve got They’ll...Learn More

Tell me what it’s like to move on Tell me what it means to grow Tell me that I won’t be this way forever I always find myself at the right place At the wrong time Left to rot in the same spot Crumbling while life forgets about me So find me rooted in the soil Deep enough to unearth my forefathers’ remains Don’t break your back trying to Pull me...Learn More

When you were born The stars didn’t even blink They walked on past without turning their heads Like God stepping over a termite Cancer and Virgo and Pisces Are just crude shapes made up of stars Nowhere within reach of each other Strung together with the fabrics Of men who clung to superstition Scorpio and Gemini and Leo Look down at you and see...Learn More

This isn’t a repeat of “Last January” This is Death in June A six-year sentence punctuated by a blood-red dot And the rips in your tights where the flesh pokes through Because you’ve gotten so Used to wearing costumes They’ve started to replace your skin Cut and sewn, formed and molded Every detail designed to replicate perfection And were you...Learn More

I’ve only ever been addicted to sorrow And I’ve chased it so long I don’t feel it much Like my meth-mouthed uncle with the brand-new track marks I’ve grown tolerant; I need something harder Growing up is giving up I’m Bored to tears with love and laughter And Forever seeking the mourning after Growing up is giving up on love Because you hunted for...Learn More

I don’t know why The world never loved you back After everything you gave You were born again But never pulled from the depths Drowning while singing that you’re saved And it’s easy to hide your tears When you’re still sinking And you can always keep your Eyes closed tight And pretend you’re only blinking A golden heart just adds more weight And...Learn More

Will I feel regret? Will I know what I feel at all? I’ve never learned to understand myself without Screaming into friends’ and strangers’ faces Temper tantrums with an audience--just a spoiled child With a God complex And like my heroes, I’m obsessed with earning a good death Anything worth loving shouldn’t last forever The best stories have...Learn More

And it feels like I am Standing on the waterfront Watching everything I ever was And everything I could be Drift away as it’s set ablaze And I want to be aboard the ship Desperately seeking purpose in The flames I live to die alone With lies of love and tales of Longing like “I could have been somebody.” I grasp for words I heard somewhere...Learn More

The dream tastes sweet But when shoved into your mouth It rots your teeth With sugar-coated myths of Love unconditional From sinister, manipulative hands That push your face down into the muck Then ask you why your lungs are blocked The dream, it taunts From atop glass ceilings And it haunts Like ghosts wholly American Inexorable spirits of the...Learn More

I watched a man die And where was God When he took his big, final breath? I stared at his face To find what was left I’ve watched a man dying And I don’t know which is worse When I look into his eyes I see God I see lies It’s not fair, I know There is sorrow where the laughter grows Two branches of the same tree One for you and one for me You...Learn More