smoke break

Noor Jaber

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                  smoke til       am no breathe
                              blow waterfall       thick ghostwords       onto page
      pull again
            twitch no air no air no       bitches be
                                    with a taste       always
                  for blackouts             drunk girl too       dumb
                              at the function       crash headfirst       into ghost
                  stories       hands       then       nothing       between       legs
                        am fuckup
            am fucked up
      am forget       am no more
                                                      breath
            am smoke am waterfall thick       over my write write how many men
                                    be ghosts       inside me       want       a waterfall
      they throats       between       my legs       knife men knifemen knifeknife
                              the only scar knows love       lives on my back
      that scar       harder       than the rest of me       that scar knot
                  like branch       be arm       of tree       reach       for birds
                              birdbrain girl       why you trust       a man like that
      smoke be all you be       girl full of spectermen       slit you
            pretend it them the ones that smokebleed        not you   notyou   notnot
                                                dumb       drunk       girl       like the taste
                        too much to say no
                                          even when she screaming it?
                        am fire       eat up kindling       and exhale
            eat men       like corpses       & am exhale       zombiegirl       til am fuckedup
      sistas of mine       also made       of haunt       we bitch       with deadmen inside
            us ember       in throat       fire       in mouth       consume       the words
                  that cannot rescue       we residue       we kindling
      we girls       of no lung       escape       into space       around       burning