J.J. Campbell

chronic pain

the spanish princess and i trade 
horror stories about chronic pain

she mentions that she has recently 
started to think about suicide

i told her the first time i thought 
of suicide i was eight years old

couldn’t tie a good enough knot

had the rope, the ladder, the tree
in the backyard

damn small fingers

i dream of us slipping away one 
summer evening off to the pacific 
ocean

where i will take the spanish 
princess into my arms, make love, 
drink the wine and may we die 
dancing in each other’s arms

who am i kidding

she lives thousands of miles away
and i don’t think my twenty year 
old vehicle is going to make it 
there

but i do know a few tall bridges
and exactly how gravity works

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