*loolaville _poetry    



Perpetually

I'm perpetually trying out
for cheerleading with red and
purple butterflies inside my stomach.
And when you're really close to me,
they flutter around so intensely
you'd think they were trying
to eat one another.
It's wreaking some kind of half-
horrible half-wonderful havoc
on my system until I can hardly
breathe and I'm trembling like
a bare tree in the winter wind.
I could perpetually hold
your hand in mine, just because
of the way that it feels.
I think everyone should hold
your hand for at least five minutes,
touching the soft, slender stretch
of skin across your bones.
Maybe I could charge them
something like a dime
so I could purchase every pocket watch
in existance and string
them up in a tiny room.
We'd hang out there in corduroy
with all the time in the world
to release those butterflies
one by one.
 


   
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