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day into night into day into night into...

by Olivia Weinkein

pulp still sticks to the inside of
glasses
& sex is exactly how you
said it would be

& i am happy sometimes,
i hum even or sing my favorite
heart-break songs that would
have once killed me.

& i listen when people tell me
their stories, their woes and demons
and no longer feel the need to say
i can relate.

because i can but i can't and it gets
lost inside of a meaning none of us have
and becomes irrelevant after a while anyway.

so i nod and i smile and i say
things will get better & i continue
getting up every morning even though
i know better.

& there are degrees of coping with mundane
every-day routine and there are ways of lying
to yourself through it all because

pulp still sticks to the inside of
glasses
& sex is exactly how you
said it would be.

03/30/2009

Posted on 03/30/2009
Copyright © 2026 Olivia Weinkein

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 03/30/09 at 06:42 PM

There's a voice dripping with venom and honey in this, and you hit that mark really well. Great work.

Posted by Nanette Bellman on 03/30/09 at 06:55 PM

This is my everyday mantra now. Great job, adding too favorites.

Posted by Meghan Helmich on 04/03/09 at 03:47 PM

i can relate.

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 09/17/13 at 11:58 AM

congratulations on POTD. the muse was definitely with you on this one.

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