LIFE ADVICE
periodically clear your web history
to hide your recent activity from yourself
open a new word doc
and close it
open a new word doc
and instead of closing it
leave it there empty and
staring at you
lie to yourself but make sure
the lies don’t contradict each other
don’t show all of yourself
but if you,
don’t give a fuck
even if you don’t,
still don’t give a fuck
generally, give no fucks
DON’T FORGET THAT HABITS ARE JUST AS BREAKABLE AS HEARTS
In the end, loving you was just
another thing my body did.
I felt my body soften into yours
I did not realize it had gone slack
as a rag doll.
Maybe we listen to the same songs over
and over for the same reason we fall in
love with the same people again and again.
Maybe there comes a time to change
the fucking station.
I WILL TURN THIS DELOREAN RIGHT AROUND, YOUNG MAN
I am slowly coming to terms with the fact
that sleeping with someone
I used to be in love with
is the closest I will ever come
to time travel.
(Very, very
slowly.)
AMY SAUL-ZERBY has been published by Internet Poetry, Sunlit, Have U Seen My Whale and theNewerYork.
She will only love you when you understand that pop music is beautiful in its own way.
She has self-published a book of “snapchat poetry” called 10 Seconds in Heaven, which is available for purchase here.