Hold Your Own

And men too rich to swim will die.

Please don’t bother raising arms to shoot us,
we’ll shoot ourselves. No really, we insist.

Once we had the fear;
now we have the fix.

You can’t be a good person and treat your lovers badly,
no matter how much you give to charity.

I smiled winningly
and bled everywhere.

She is food for the gulls and it’s humbling.
But this is not all
That she was born to be.

You long for knowledge;
you will soon long for ignorance.

True love takes its toll
On souls
Who are not used to feeling whole.

A man as soft as any girl
A man as hard as any luck.

liked to giggle with the pretty boys and kiss the lonely addicts