Tolerated: Delicate Illicit Invisible

"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived/Fortnight"

By Zach Ash

Vestment 1 DENIAL

Dear reader

if you find x on the map

I already am 1

Reading with your eyes closed in the city️

Wifebeater

Isn't it just so Pretty

Yeah you picked me

for your top shelf

They got me down bad

Sitting by myself

Night prose in your night clothes and you're with me now ️

I sit and read you ️

I sit and need you

To see me

pathologically

Idiotically

Vestment 2 DEPRESSION

Red wine spill-in

all on your top shelf

I'm drowning in-it

Tears for you

all on myself

I wait by the door ‍♀️

You leave me in your wake ️

Where all the poets go to lie ✍️ (Emily Dickinson)

cliffside pools of ink, my own mistakes ️

Your dirty little chore ️

Your dinner dishes gleam

in the kitchen

My wishes scream

And glisten…

Vestment 3 BARGAINING

Your dirty little chore

polish me til I gleam, but listen

If it's all… in your bed tell me how

Cause it's all in my head, right now …

Vestment 4 DEPRESSION

I wait by the door ‍♀️

Your dirty little chore ️

Your dinner dishes gleam

in the kitchen

My wishes scream

Do ya miss me? ️

Vestment 5 BARGAINING

But if I've got it wrong somehow

And the bed's not how you made it

I'll be waiting for you, to find out ‍♀️

You don't have to, tolerate it

Vestment 6 ANGER

Put your weight on me and use it

Believe me, you could do it

Wore this braid for you to use it (evermore braid)

Ooooh these tattoos r like u

Unnecessary

Temporary

Ooooh these tattoos

Stuck like glue in my skin

Stuck like you

Hold me down where you lie

You are what the night's for

Hold me down where I cry ❤️‍

Remember what you fight for ️

Vestment 7 BARGAINING

It's all in my head right now ☁️

But if I've got it wrong

Show me how ️ ⛓️

Vestment 8 ACCEPTANCE

Off you go for a fortnight

Your sword a form of sorcery

I wait alone but it's alright

Said you'd come back to me

I wait alone in porch light️

Turns out there's no difference

Between Delicate illicit

And being tolerated ️

All is fair in love and poetry

Your sword a form of sorcery

Said you'd come back to me

When you win, innocent

Your lips my idea of forgery ‍♀️

Guilty as sin (adam and eve)

No I don't want your kid

Don't want your baby

Who are these hypnotic hands that made me? ️

Dear reader ✍️

I sit and listen

Reading with your eyes closed ☁️

It gleams and glistens

Dear reader

If you find X on the map

Yeah you know the street

i already am 1

It's already undone

I'm already long gone

In the car you sat casually

No, you don't read