don’t ever come back
please
ever
is 6:30 in the morning
in the blurry city limits
by the river
the orange sun burning in the
skyscrapers
like a sweet fireball
hitting the stomach
of the hurt wooden piers
and the red bricks
and the rats
don’t ever come back
remember my words
don’t remember my closed eyes
my cigarette smell
the sounds of my bones
trembling
frozen
against your skirt
against your winsome lines
wet in your rotten cotton smell
don’t
don’t remember
anything
but this
don’t remember
anything
but my last words
