Another Stupid Break Up Poem Even Though I Never Dated You

I know your slender fingers

Will never weave through my hair

You'll never play your guitar for me

Or introduce me to your dogs

I have nobody to talk politics with now

My friends regurgitate what they're told

You'll never drink coffee with me again

Or eat lunch at our spot 

In fact you'll take other girls there

Stronger, bolder, prettier girls

With Spanish hips and sharp eyebrows

They'll swallow you whole

But in the morning

When you wake up with her next to you

Bare breasted and in love

You'll drink your coffee and watch the news

I won't be there to trash talk politicians

Or steal sips of your black coffee

And you'll realize this

And it'll get to you

Like it already has for me

-Rachel Javorsky

Smoke Break

Lulled eyes,

Hollow cheeks,

Blood stains, 

And cheap meat.

Smoke burnt throats

And dying breaths.

Crisp frost

And packs of dread.

Air like musk

And spice

And cheap cologne

And fist fights.

Clear blue eyes

Slowly scorching

And singeing

And charring.

First he's fine

Now he's laughing

Now he's crying

Now he's wailing.

And there I sat,

On the same cold pavement,

As his insides

Spilled on to the floor.

-Rachel Javorsky