remember when i told you to feed your dog alphabet soup if you wanted him to speak he was a husky with one blue eye and the other brown like dirt on the ground
he used to terrorize and chase my orange tabby until we fell off the bed onto the carpet laughing i watched you turn into a whisper
and i wanted to hear you so i thought i'd come closer you told me that when i grow up i'll be just like my mother i think you thought it'd be insulting but why's it so bad to smother everything (everything) and everyone (everyone)
you love with affection and say things like you mean them remember when you said that you liked poetry you had a bad habit and it forced you to condense things
you made sure your words never left a trace you prayed they'd slip through cracks on sidewalks and holes in lace you were 10 years old when you were in a state spelling bee you misspelled Antarctica and you said it was embarrassing
your parents would never let you live it down you walked away from the podium tears staining shaky hands I didn't mean to make you the reciever of my miseries now you're thinking how can I leave her? I didn't mean to make you the reciever of my miseries now you're thinking how can I leave her? I didn't mean to make you the reciever of my miseries now you're thinking how can I leave her?