Featured Poetry

there was a time, before i knew what love meant

Jesús Boscán

silverfoxx922 sent you a message.

 

M19: yesterday you told me that you

silverfoxx922: loved me.

M19: yet i don’t know what you look like

silverfoxx922: my computers not working

M19: but i hear you just fine…

silverfox922: what brings you on tonight?

M19: yet there is only one reason.

silverfoxx922: the page just before

M19: was only,

 

silverfox922 is typing…

 

M19: a landscape of muscled torsos

silverfoxx922: and greying hair.

M19: decaying figures destined for solitude

silverfoxx922: but not tonight

M19: the screen is blue

silverfoxx922: the pixels scratch your young body so nicely.

M19: my collarbones sit so pleasantly

silverfoxx922: atop a bed of smooth, hairless skin

M19: smooth. hairless. skin.

silverfoxx922: i ask,

M19: is anyone home?

silverfoxx922: you answered

M19: no

silverfoxx922: do you talk elsewhere?

M19: the words repeat

silverfoxx922: don’t worry,

M19: we can have fun here

silverfoxx922: new to this?

M19: i wish the answer was yes.

silverfoxx922: what would you do?

M19: if i were with you right now?

silverfoxx922: is what i say… to you

M19: and the 14 open tabs just beside me name

silverfoxx992: take off your shirt

M19: and i complied

silverfoxx922: just like a dog,

M19: how i yield

silverfoxx922: it is beautiful to pretend,

M19: play the part of the actor

silverfoxx922: i have to keep it down

M19: so you don’t wake-

silverfoxx922: my roommate.

M19: -your wife and kids

silverfoxx922: are you stroking it right now?

M19: last night you told me i was

silverfoxx922: beautiful

M19: and i believed you.

 

M19 sent a picture.

 

M19: this could all be over,

silverfoxx922: with the click of a button.

M19: yet i somehow surrender

silverfoxx922: because no one has ever

M19: treated me this kindly

 

M19 is typing…

 

M19: yesterday you told me that you

silverfoxx922: loved me.

M19: was it all just a lie?

 

silverfoxx922 left the chat.

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