Lizzy Burnam 🐞

Please don’t blame me when I avert my eyes 
Half-asleep inside melancholy dreams 
Just a few deep breaths from the exit sign 
Creeping as I come, trampled as I seem 

In the leaving there’s a certain romance 
Melody of footsteps undiscovered 
Echoed in that verse—Ecclesiastes
1:2–but the earth remains forever 

How needing just dissolves for a SIM card 
And lonely is mistaken for a life 
I took the numbers straight, like a coward 
My labors left to die in my device

The joy I’ve found in self-destruction mode 
Is no secret—at least, the neighbors know…