Paperback Heaven
It’s the little things:
A perfectly halved strawberry
ripe skin on my tongue, sweeter than kisses
Paperback wishes
flimsily tossed into make-believe wishing wells
to make me dream harder
that weigh more than second-hand dreams
dictated to me by grown-ups who don’t really think
they know better
but simply want to feel
good
about the hell inside their heads. I'd rather be in hell
with my paperback wishes
with my paperback wishes
because if I were in heaven,
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