Separate me like laundry, place each part of me in different coloured baskets.
Pour fabric softener down my throat, soften the lumps I keep choking on.
I’m not clean…. I can’t get this filth out from underneath my skin.
I couldn’t protect you from the words in your ears
The holes in your head
The weight of it all sinking you down
Stuck in the floorboards
Stuck in your mind
Nothing left to lift you up
I wish I could have
Separate me like laundry, place each part of me in different coloured baskets.
Pour fabric softener down my throat, soften the lumps I keep choking on.
I’m not clean…. I can’t get this filth out from underneath my skin.
Peel it back, one giant organ.
Misty mouthwash fog clouds the air
Covering up my glasses
Rolling around in bleached blankets
Stamp my body in the snow
Make me feel 2 foot four
Too short to reach the kitchen sink
Why my bones are like dried up twigs
Tucked into the foot of my bed
Why my eyelids are like crusty rose petals
Lids breaking each time they open
And my lips like earthworms
Trying to squirm away from it all
