virus

two days i cried / he told me / zombie inside / and she laughed / and died / the swarm of hospital beds / hallucinations in my head

16 candles on a cake / empty shell pill-shaped / you hold youth with no escape

a twisted tylenol timecapsule / microscopic / nested under flesh and bone / he shrouds himself with human skin / so original when he sins

her infection his deception / don't let me drown you / the tears fall on my tongue / splashing flies on the floor below / who sate their wild appetites / with stories of my quiet nights

was it really so simple, / all along, so simple / to understand, / he weeps, / and turns down an antiseptic street.