Eating Italian Wedding soup in the waiting room at the dermatologist

The only way
through weighted days
is to wade through them.

I used to be so good at lying,
but now I am better at the truth;
sure I had some dark years—
dark, but defining.

‘Here’s my fuckin’ hurt heart,"
I say every day
in the reflection of puddles,
which curse back.

We are all just thrift store paintings,
souls given new lives
with every buy.