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Tag: time
Ugly Truth
Ugly Truth Tonight I got drunk alone in my bed because you thought it would be right to not talk to me So I swayed on pillows and pissed in dark bathrooms and got pissed and was pissed at myself for getting drunk not being enough Or being too much or being me I shot… Continue reading Ugly Truth
On The Kiss of Wind #2
On the Kiss of Wind #2 By the time he gets to Turnpike Lane his eyes are drooping the back and forth of rails turning all his y’s into g’s stale air for stale thoughts and somewhere up there kissed by wind she sleeps bamboo chimes singing his lullaby whispering... -Well, that’s for her ear. Run… Continue reading On The Kiss of Wind #2
Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics I invented time travel lying in bed with you hours skipping by like naughty children sticky fingers trailing in the past. Every liquid minute that washes our resting bodies; a lazy eon spent watching you smiling tomorrow's smiles. Astray in history drowning in the future's scent our shooting star flight burning bedsheet cosmos,… Continue reading Quantum Mechanics
Be Still My Beating Heart
Be Still My Beating Heart I smashed one's head in with a hammer arranged his brains upon the floor, shot six in the kneecap put two more in his skull four and five were poisonings eight left swinging from a rope nine fought back, but I fought harder clawed seven's eyes out, slit his throat—… Continue reading Be Still My Beating Heart
Timetravel for Dummies
My short story Timetravel for Dummies was published in Aurealis #52, the Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Literary Magazine. To purchase a copy, head to https://aurealis.com.au/store/aurealis-52/
Michael Burrows 