i will never fuck jesus. promise.

i am an expert at alienating my loved ones
you might try it some time
it's as easy as making soup
sousp, suop, pous, uosp, spuo, souq
q
it makes the fabric between skin and sky
so much more nothing
scandalous
filmy
delicate
sharp as a flake of obsidian
so sharp that
the blood that leaks from the cut
seems natural
normal blood

i'm stretching. i feel the sinew pull. i hear the thrum-thrum of my heartbeat in my ears. i haven't moved an inch in hours. i'm sober. everything under the sun causes cancer. i'll quit smoking cigarettes and then i'll live forever. i'll quit driving and then i'll never be in a car-accident. i've stopped eating. now i'll never get food poisining. i've quit believing. now i will never go to hell. i've stopped typing. now i'