{"id":2586,"date":"2014-07-21T03:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T03:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2017-07-11T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:52:52","slug":"birdbrained-emotions-by-jessica-k-hylton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/birdbrained-emotions-by-jessica-k-hylton\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdbrained Emotions by Jessica K. Hylton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Birdbrained Emotions<\/h1>\n

by Jessica K. Hylton<\/p>\n

They say to get over someone
\nYou’re supposed to pick up a new hobby
\nAnd apparently the most cathartic
\nAre the hobbies where you make something
\nSo you bring a woodworking bench
\nPast the film cameras, the roller skates, the bass guitar
\nAnd hope that a new birdhouse
\nWill take away memories
\nBetter than the temporary
\nReprieve granted by neon flavored shots
\nAnd long legs that walk in directions
\nYou don’t really want to go<\/p>\n

But one birdhouse only leads to another
\nA gateway carpentry
\nAnd pretty soon the whole living room
\nIs filled with 353 birdhouses
\nThen you realize you don’t even like birds
\nFucking feathered freaks that shit on their own food
\nWhy do they deserve to live in such palaces
\nWhile you can barely afford a one bedroom apartment
\nThat smells of burnt out cigarettes and stale new beginnings<\/p>\n

In fact you hate birds
\nYou think about taking all the houses
\nOutside and lighting them on fire
\nTo be rid of the clutter
\nBut while you’re looking for matches
\nYou run across a keepsake that you shouldn’t still keep
\nAnd pretty soon you’re staring at a blank text message
\nTrying to think of the right thing to say to the wrong person<\/p>\n

Thinking honesty is the best option
\nYou start typing out “I mis–”
\nBut you can’t even stand to look at the words
\nAs if somehow seeing them makes
\nThem more real and you know honesty
\nIs only appreciated by hearts that want to beat
\nNot by those looking for refuge behind walls<\/p>\n

You throw the phone across
\nThe birdhouse mountain range
\nAnd do the only thing you know
\nHow to do at this point
\nStart on number 354<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Jessica K. Hylton writes most of her poetry while driving. She has wrecked three cars, but she finished her dissertation.<\/p>\n

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