Payton Selby

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I am in love! with my enemy vicious & beautiful & looks a lot like me.

Will you walk me home?

I never bargain with our destiny. I am suddenly endowed with this dark energy— the kind where I hurt you before you hurt me.

Love, as a word, is trite— covers all manner of sins.

I remember how gently your hands traced the keys of wooden pianos I wished you were gentle with me this way -close enough you always left your mark.

Can I call you tonight? silly redemption songs those we danced to in the dark.

you never did stay for aftermath my feet keep finding broken glass.

Ours is a perverted fairy tale poisoned by the innocence of youth things run stale. Somewhere on the dark side, we bring out in each other

fruit flies on rot tobacco haze & medicine drowns out thought.

The last time we made False Love felt like violence purgatory of this prison we’re in. Poison & equal parts panacea.

Drinking too much because we both don’t like to think traverse the terrible memory mine, sink.

This is sacred work.

fragile like a bomb. easy to die, easy to pry. and you don’t like to talk and you don’t like to cry.

Will you meet me here tomorrow?

I feel dark matter encroaching I can’t accept the end of starlight

let us alone If this be the last time I see you tonight, remove the cloak of sanctimony I need to see you under the light

In purgatory, love, equal parts heaven and hell

I’ll never bargain with destiny so I won’t ask you to stay and I won’t bid farewell.

Where were you yesterday?

I am in love with my enemy — he looks a lot like me.