In the Flats of Melrose

[americangothic 1,727]

"In the Flats of Melrose"

(From the book Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass).

Spoiler

 

What will it take for me not to feel like the train will

run away with me bound up like the sad heroine tied to the last car

What will it take for me not to need you

so I can just have you for fun

and for who you really are

 

Not you as the savior

not me as Ophelia

not us putting our faith in the public's dark art

 

Topanga on Sunday?

two cats in the yard

NPR rumbling quietly

a fire in the hearth

me with a knowingness deep in my heart

that nothing could stop me

no valley too far

to walk through in darkness to keep us apart.

 

And that we don't need fighting to find resolution

that not every marriage ends in the dissolution

that I don't need you

but I want you

because you're so cool

and I'm not that damaged

and ur not hell-bent on being some indie director

or whatever pipe dream you and your friends are smoking

That it's enough just for us

to be sitting in the flats of Melrose

my heart on fire

a tallboy cracked open

I love you Josiah

I'm sorry I'm still broken

but I could still make you happy.

Let's pour one out

to knowing 

not hoping.

 

 

 

 

 

[American Whore 51,674]

This one has that NFR vibe. The director who wants to make an indie film, which she calls a pipe dream. Two cats in the yard from How To Disappear. 

 

If she’s referencing the cats again (which is interesting she now has 2 young cats) then Josiah is another name for John and Joe (which could be short for Josiah), so she’s intentionally changing the name for whoever this person is. Im interested to know who this guy is because he could be the NFR caricature she’s talking about

 

(I’m betting on Francesco considering another poem sounded like it was about him)