BLOODBUZZ

 Trying to grow up fast

we pick out the teeth of our girlhood

string them around our necks

I don't own a single cavity

sugar never stuck

they still won't let us into the party

the red on our chests will scare the boys away.

wander turns to hunt

girls on bloodbuzz

eyes so dark i almost fall into them

girls with dreams too heavy for their necks

courage thick enough to braid medusa's hair.

half-glowing and high

we prool over streets that could swallow us whole

scraping the change from a stranger's side

pocketing the stares and loosing our way

beyond the map of faces

running to where my thoughts go

when they want to be alone

they're going to lock up in the sky, someone says

so we climb above the smoke

I've seen a thousand sunsets and none of them have saved me

not even the ones i set on fire myself

but if they bury freedom tonight

i don't want to witness it alone

we write each other's names

on the bites hanging from our necks

and it isn't the smoldering sun that warms me

it isn't the holy of the gold that saves me

tooth and bone and blood and flesh no longer matter

beneath a heady dusk

we simmer to stardust

if our truth dies at midnight

the dawn will mourn us

because there is nothing to be found

beneath tomorrow's skies