We Were Emergencies- Buddy Wakefield

We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.
But tonight let us not become tragedies.

We are not funeral homes
with propane tanks in our windows
lookin’ like cemeteries.
Cemeteries are just the Earth’s way of not letting go.
Let go.
Tonight, poets, let’s turn our wrists so far backwards
the razor blades in our pencil tips
can’t get a good angle on all that beauty inside.

Step into this.
With your airplane parts.
Move forward.
And repeat after me with your heart:
I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.
Make love to me
like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I’m new to this,
but I have seen nearly every city from a rooftop
without jumping.

I have realized that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it.
That we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it.
That if our hearts
really broke
every time we fell from love
I’d be able to offer you confetti by now.
But hearts don’t break, y’all,
they bruise and get better.
We were never tragedies.
We were emergencies.
You call 9 – 1 – 1.
Tell them I’m havin’ a fantastic time.

he has the best song, I swear

GOLDI POLDI HALLELUJAAAAAH.

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ETA: And if he has a great song I haven't heard it yet, but he needs one immediately. SANTI CAZORLAAAA IS THIS WHAT GOALS FEEL LIKE I DON'T KNOW I HAVEN'T HAD THEM IN A LONG TIME. HEY ARSENAL SINCE WHEN WERE YOU THIS EFFICIENT WITH YOUR CHANCES.

Can't remember when the last time we didn't have more corners than the other team was, though.


Son of ETA: But seriously, guys, do you have the feeling that this game was held in a mirror world where Liverpool are us, flashy and wasteful and careless? Also: when did Liverpool get this good?


ETA the Third: Vito Mannone and Abou Diaby, take a bow.