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The country ๐Ÿงก

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(Play your favorite country song. Mine is God must be a cowboy by Dan Seals and God's Coloring Book by Dolly Parton!!๐Ÿงก This article exposes my silly little heart. Enjoy) I'm growing fond of cigarettes and beer glasses. I'm getting used to the kisses wrapped around whiskey and apple pie. Slow music in this crowded bar. I look around and I can barely see the faces of everyone else. But looking down on this wooden floor I can see gowns swaying and old boots moving around and right on my face is this man. "I love your long beard and that hat was a good choice." I go. This town. The weather is misty in the evenings, the music is louder than the raindrops and the air sounds like Rascal Flatts then Maren Morris..."can I get a hallelujah? can I get an amen? Feels like the holy ghost running through ya, when I play the Highway FM"... everyone sings along and the voice behind my head goes, " I want to exist here forever!" The country has a way of huggin...

Excerpt from "Unrequited Love"

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I wrote this listening to 'I'm still into you'. I love love the songggg.  I always knew I was over the heartache. I knew a second look at Joe would disgust me more than melting me to a stupid squishy ball. It had been 4 months after all. I took my letter writing shit seriously in as much as we lived together. I found it necessary to drop a letter once in a while but the best part of it all, he replied to every single part. Most times he'd slide them under my pillow or stick them around the house wall on sticky notes. Cute right? Joe was not my first love, he was not my second, not my third but I definitely thought he'd be my last. He was everything I'd write down on a list of the things I want in a person. But people come in black and white and red and yellow and all colours, but for him, he was stuck on a weird gray color. He was kind, cool, cute but too loud when he should have been silent but most of all he was my retribution. See here is the thing about unre...