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Poem Collection - MythOfHappiness - 24. Bubblegum
I can’t chew bubblegum
pop my insides like
coca-cola sweet on
rubber-tongued dolls
fucking in the kitchen
where my mother smoked
cigarettes smell like ash-tray kisses on
wednesday after church let out
I’d cry in my bedroom
sheets sticky with dried
“come over” she slurred
snapping pink sugar into the
phone calls sound so
fake-carved with a razor into my arm
wrapped round her
waste of space, of
time ticks don’t stop
-watch seconds pulling heart
-strings swell, bitter honesty pouring out
-side nerves sting
raw truth don’t taste like
bubblegum
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