My Notebook Lies Barren,

My first ever edit!

Dead Poets Society, 1998 | "Flightless Birds," Bubble Guppies

i see only darkness

you switched off the light when you left my life

and i’m too tired to turn it back on

so i remain, transfixed, lit by the dim glow

from the crack under the door

occasionally lit by the light of

the random visitor who will open

the door and say hi only to

leave, shutting out light once more.

-penoffpaper, 10/20/2023

in love with the art by the de la Torre brothers

pictured above is Transdiferenciación 2

transcript:

the

suprasternal notch

far too personal

to speak of.

weigh

poisons

never again.

oleander and lupine

dream a love

arrives, too late.

-penoffpaper, 01/15/2024