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Not about that – not about love

December 22, 2023December 22, 2023 Elisabeth Horan

I miss that stupid ache — Fiona Apple Floating in a slick of oil – arms out Funneling the pollution through my hair Mermaid on her back — I protect the brain Coral. I am myself: a filthy Exxon liar Exposed, naked bulge of plastic waste; Daliesque my fans and Read more

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What is, Depression

November 1, 2023November 1, 2023 Elisabeth Horan

Look at me – just standing here in torrents. Brown pain in rusty fluid- it flows from my back- I have a pic line to drain for that I have sin fingers I have cut off toes I have a heart pump shut off emergency switch for when things get Read more

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The monster in me… Limp sonnet

July 7, 2023July 7, 2023 Elisabeth Horan

It’s so fun to fuck a woman, then leave her. It’s so easy to smile, and become her man. When you make me bleed, you ain’t so big — It shouldn’t be so easy to eat a heart… I’m thinking of you now, texting me; booty call I’m thinking of Read more

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4/14/20

June 5, 2023June 5, 2023 Elisabeth Horan

I dictate a message to you on fb – explaining how much I still love you, and that I never meant to hurt you. I do another one, to another lover…. very similar, but different. Mute/I am a wrecking ball. Unmute/fight with the husband: you were behind the barn smoking… Read more

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Hearts are breaking everywhere

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Elisabeth Horan

Even though I cannot see your face Nor place my fingers upon your skin; I am here; craving your words, your Warmth, the small smile in the dark, So damn sweet As if still children; we would play on the Playground, eat unwashed apples, and Ride our bikes, dangerously… Need Read more

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Every single night

April 3, 2023April 3, 2023 Elisabeth Horan

My brain is a place of deep concern to me. My brain is a place of butterflies and octopi. You haven’t seen a place such as this and I am so happy for you. You tell me to smile and chock it all up to my negative attitude – that Read more

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Desideratum – n. something which is needed or wanted

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Elisabeth Horan

On a Joplin trip Winding a string around my finger Oh yeah; sweetest hues and blue of Addiction, of love of words, pastel baby What’s the point, little girl-pink tastes Like anger to me — I need nothing But satin feelings — I understand nothing — the Presence of my Read more

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Surviving a suicide with my help

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Elisabeth Horan

Forever is exhausting. Andrew is never gone… Just like we are never over Not that we are the same, and yet We are something like forever. Alive. Or dead. Does it even matter? What we do, even when in shadows. Is anyone really, ever, listening? I touch your chin as Read more

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