We’re tangled up on purpose,

letting loose-ends unravel.

        I can only hope they continue

                                       _to _

_ flare_

_ out._ I’m all caught up, but leave me be.

**I am an **addict

These days without you leave me strung out. My hands

                            _s      a      e_

__

_ h k_

              when they aren’t against you.

A flame dances with the tip of my cigarette.

Nicotine limbo, until I get another hit.

           "_Staying alive was never my intention_"

days of withdrawals on repeat

                         you’ve **shattered** all my reason





                       **Give me anything**

Red surrounds each iris CO2 saturated,

"_you’re a panic _****attack."

Blood vessels constrict. I’m numb. My pulse on display of this cardboard torso. "Pleading" at every intersection,

I was given the shirt off of a man’s back It wiped detox from my eyes.

Pressure induced white noise galaxies. Blinks of lubrication, a subtle sniff A beggar slips away.

                       **Now I’ve given myself**