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The Pretty Boy Paradox

Vexation seeps through sighs 
As the pen finds comfort 
Sharing the same story

Nonsensical pretty boys 
With smoke cloud habits 
And bloodshot ponderings

Vaunting on their 
Newsworthy delinquency 
With incessant metal bar consequences 

Promulgating in the same breath 
they’re gaining 
New ground 

Breaking the cleanse 
Of poisoning 
Their liver 

And feeling the linear 
Coldness of a countertop 
On their nose

With a half glass of water 
In a ring of loneliness 
On their nightstand 

The gulp of insomnia 
Rudely digs its hook of candidness 
In your empathic being 

Melodramatic memories 
Of empty dinner table 
Upbringings 

Spending school nights 
Placing cigarettes 
In plastic bottles 

With front porch 
Heart to hearts 
With their second self 

Pulling the sleeves 
Of sweatshirts once borrowed 
Over tattooed knuckles 

Shivering against the disbelief 
That loyalty in this town
Is only face to face 

Rehashing 
first heartbreaks 
With the outlook 

That mistrust follows
Demons 
That look just like you 

The way you 
Introduce yourself 
With skintight beliefs 

Low cut distractions
Met with 
Amorous disposition 

Abrade their thoughts 
Of you from tantalizing 
To discomfiture 

And their ears 
Can’t handle 
Opprobrium especially from their friends 

When you would 
Put fingers 
In yours like an obstinate child 

Just to keep
Looking at them 
With oblivious blissful daydreams 

Even if you were 
Stumbling drunk 
Out of their broken front door the night before 

After learning 
They sent flowers to someone else 
Like a man with his paramour 

Leaving your existence 
In a blighted state 
Surrounded by empty walls 

For
They
Took it all 

But don’t worry 
The guilt of breaking your heart 
Is easier for them to swallow 

Than the nausea 
Traveling up their throat 
With the spew of your adoration

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