Love Poem: French Bistros
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Written by: Julieta Salzano

French Bistros

Crackling like lightning the scent of rainy sundays and sweaty youth enters my lungs like undesired medication

foot steps and introduction of generations and blood lines fills my head like crazy family stories

This time of night reminds me of you

I walked past the french bistro and absorbed young skins and loud jazz rumbling like a giants soulful baby
I watched day turn to night and rain drizzle upon this illuminated darkness of melodies and heart grabbing stares

Paranoia captured my follicles 
and I swear that man on the train with poka dots and stripped hands
looks like you 

I walked past the french bistro as my hair began to gather the memories of the year
and the world seemed to mirror my thoughts 

this time of year reminds me of you

I remind me of you

I keep waiting for a newness to enter my heart

so Im not chained to my love for you

I forgot all our times together

because they remind me of wine dipped, swollen, broken hearts of mine

wanting to grow and develope more then ever I only revert back to ghosts of reality

The bone marrow inside of me was stolen by santa

and each joint of my body has gained such a heaviness
its hard to get up
from pillows of dusty broken skin cells 

Shoulder whipped and ankles cold lonesome electricity 
pipping in darkened roofs 
hooved horses bellowing
below
me

whispers of cloud catching voices that aren’t you
and hands that roughen me
toughen me

lost to the shell of you

lost to the sparked foutainhead that spouts your 
linguistic melodies in my head like torterous
hellish 
key board clicking
ticking me away from existence 

jumbled in condenced barren faces
desolate land erupt me
 oh places places places
that feed me into monstreous children
forsaken 

silly folly I forbid you to drink me dry
darken me so
leave me lonesome
take me holy 

Thought I heard you whisper but it was only the mosquito sucking my rotting blood

This part of me reminds me of you