boys with black eyes
and rough hands and
lips that will never love
you told me i’d be safe
and as always i was naive and there was a cy twombly print
ripped up, discarded, in some steel mesh wastebasket
my Brazilian friend hadn’t returned my calls,
you refused to pick up the phone
so i placed a lit cigarette against the fine hairs on my arm to forget you
but the storm had made me vividly aware of the island
i had become.
(via satanasa)












