Felix by Sofia Greenberg - Humble Pie

Emily Carrasco
Mad Eyes
I just want people to be people, you know
You ask me questions that linger in stale air and answerless
Mad eyes that swell up like nasty, collecting in your corners
Give me a change of heart please cause no one wants to see this
Give it to me,
Place it in my palm
a person that’s anti this
And that things will change when there’s
nothing but ugly all around this table
I just want to grasp the things I long for with these hands
To cradle and carry things without pain
Yeah, I miss that
And the mean, get it all out cause it’s making you, it is you
These poems are just about the begger in me
And your ways and your not ways and you and not you
I’m shaking you and your shoulders
I’m shaking them till they fall down and still
I’m speaking in tongues with tongues and spitting mouths to
whisper shout
Build this body up to be damned,
Yeah, tower over me and burn on top,
like a cherry
Following empty, following sheer, then comes rain
Until you don’t mean it anymore and you’re sorry
You’re never sorry and you’re so so sorry
For nothing
For me you feel so sorry for of course you do.
I want these people to hold signs and posters in pink that say
Yes or no I am humane
With shaking hands and shoulders I am who you’d love
All we need are signs and a street and some shaking shoulders
And this love, this pretend love to live on like love itself
Because were good at that, like god
Good like golden guns, its good, like the streets with golden
god
And a gun