Leave us alone.
Leave us alone.

You never cared
until it was shared
on the internet.
I never talk to you.
I haven’t seen
you in years.

Kindly, fuck off.
Begrudging cousin.
A gaggle of siblings
K through twelve
I didn’t ask for
but know just
the blood same
about.

You were on
kidney stone pain pills.
And he was an alcoholic
in the seventh grade.
The boy I used to draw with
became a loser.
I became kind of the same.
And someone gave
Shakes a needle.
And I went to the rose bowl
trying to understand.

Now I’m in Arizona.
Fucking Arizona.
Throwing away bullshit
in preparation to return
from my self-imposed exile.

Things are burdens.

Set fire to your
bedframe
and your
roommate.