fah ree ay gent rez

nothing about him was real. but she didn’t know that at first. at first, he was fascinating in the way loosely-bound wrappers of fiction are; stranger than life and bigger, too, until you looked closer. when you looked closer, you could see the gaps between reality and make-believe; they hung all blown out, loose, and flappy in the wind of reason.

empty

empty things make me cry used up and cast aside crushed and wadded reminders laying dirty and forgotten in gutters blown along midnight streets ever notice that nothing of the world ever reaches such state except what we create one never sees an empty flower a disposable tree a used up river i realized today watching people along a busy street humans are never empty never used up never useless, for all we often think otherwise