—I’VE BEEN BUSY, PACING AND RUNNING MY MOUTH

graveyard walk

I unstrung

my bones

today

took them for

a graveyard walk

to talk to

the ghosts

I haven’t

seen since

I buried

one half

of myself

and I know

what you’d say

if you were

with me now

how I’m

the king of pain

whether it’s true

or fiction

but I plucked

some weeds anyway

and dusted off

the lonesome

headstones

to see if

their names were

still spelled right

it’s funny/not funny

what the dead

have to tell you

all the truths

they couldn’t

while alive

like how they

wish it’d been

different

and how sorry

they are that

they had you