The redbreast kills
and kills itself against
the window
Sooner or later the blood in the breast will break the window into hundreds of pieces you can swallow whole
Keep swallowing
The redbreast
loves you and wants you
to remember the love
So it makes you puke into the toilet blind
I was blinded by love
And drowned
in an empty bathtub
spitting up birdshit
Covered in red feathers
Sometimes the redbreast likes anting with lit cigarettes safety pins paper cuts God that feels good
It wraps everything
in pretty pink gauze the color
of fake sunset
Look it is a pink soul!
It wants to get naked and it wants it to hurt
Red teeth red toes
Open mouths
Who keeps pressing
my head into the sidewalk
inside the bathroom
Who keeps the lights on the lights stay on
Who dissolves on my tongue
Who flies from my finger
The redbreast sits inside
behind your left eye
behind your right and cleans
its babies with
its beak
Scrubs its babies clean
Shakes its tail feathers to scour the floor behind your forehead and scours the floor red
My brain is a cutter
My initials are beats per second
Scrubbed down to zero
by the rubies
in the halo
I whispered your name into the red air
and you answered