Once you were a daydream just out of reach— exciting, but familiar enough to be comfortable an idyllic wonderland only we know about But...

I’m not sure I’ve seen a shooting star And what we have is what I would have wished But instead of the quick and fleeting Blink and then...

the lines I had to draw made a pentacle I cursed your name you called me a witch I was down bad as I had prophesied but not as down as...

You're a doll, darling, and you are too Pretty painted faces, those long Barbie legs Perfect blonde hair, pageant queen smiles Has he...

I replied to my mother: to tell a fat person that she is fat is to tell her I think you are too stupid to realize what you look like so I...

Tortured Poets Department, how can you help me? Press one for English, two for pained brooding For quality assurance purposes you will be...

I'll be back in town in two weeks' time To pick up the things I left in your flat My grey sweater, cat lamp, and pride Volume I used to...

Your daughter, with your thin eyebrows, round face, and anxiety You always said that we were alike, that I was your clone Everywhere I...

I so hate the letter y ugly like someone’s  ass such a yucky letter and it is also very un-American. Yin and Yang are un-American the...

I am a Swiftie. I am also a poet. So when Taylor Swift announced her next album, The Tortured Poets Department, a bit after I started...

Honesty without kindness is cruelty Your truth may have set you free But it caught and imprisoned me It tortured me then, haunts me now...

They live, my thoughts of you You will never learn of them Because they’re messy    & embarrassing but I had to tell someone make a note...

No I will not tell you what that poem was about I cannot deprive the many college students, two hundred years from now, the opportunity...

On New Year’s we clink glasses, the dozing kids’ Martinellis flat in theirs Hold out on their ages until they each finish a bowl of...

We may have been sharper I was starting to get abs, you’d noticed But our shared time was too delicious Made us softer, squishier Gave us...

It was an uncertain Spring And in just two weeks we went from Bits of pixel and soundbytes To walking hand in hand toward the beach, To a...

I open the door easily because you remembered to unlock it It is dark as I take off my shoes and call out, yoo-hoo? You reply from the...

It was something like March 129th When I was in my late twenties And working even later nights All the conversations were about This new...

there are plenty of fish in the sea but you did catch me so why would you let me go

she is broken the same way as the church. the cracks, the rotten core they do not matter because those who leave won’t see them anymore...