unstated patience

mouth is where we live, oral apartment

I cracked a window in my sleep on saturday

my lips look paler in the morning

it takes time for them to get ripe

I wake up with my eyes loose and crooked

wet glue on a magazine

When you crack a window and you don’t know how to repair it and there are no builders available, all you can do is sit next to it in your rattiest hoodie and hope that nothing gets in.

When you can’t find your lipstick or lip stain or lip gloss in your purse, you can pick at your lips for a while maybe or just sit in the car. You can watch the bugs hit the windshield.

Everything looks like a movie if it doesn’t matter so much to you. Sometimes you have to make sure the cameras aren’t rolling. You have to make sure the cameras aren’t rolling sometimes.