20081204 / Goodbye Poem

(Aracelis' Workshop)

How do I say goodbye to such intimacy?
The air between my shea buttered skin and my favorite shirt
You’ve treated me well and warm
Goodbye
The light between sacred sheets and rose duvets
Dear, spirits in my elevator - the only ones tangible to my day’s relief
Numerous sighs – goodbyes
Sweat in lifelines
Night in earlobes
Summer on taste buds
Farewell – you – white dressed homeless man on 12th street
Farewell 12th street
Jingle of keys
Goodbye the thousands of beautiful sunsets
Millions of gorgeous eyelashes unfolding like rose petals to the touch
The hundreds of train passengers I have fallen for
All of our secret deaths
Goodbye
The thoughts on my mind that wake up with me
This is how I say goodbye to my life, fingers locked listed:
Goodbye rough muscle, smooth teeth
The ghost in my closet that I’ve wasted many a 6-year-old bone trying to tippy toe past – stay fast asleep and friendly
Goodbye the eye: a deceiving bitch
Goodbye the bag on the brownest tree that my cousin told me a dead baby lived in
Goodbye jarred lady bugs, attempts to fly, jealousy
Goodbye the 3 days of cold lonesome I never got to warm
Goodbye to the Brooklyn bound A trains to Lefferts
Left us with dirty bed spreads
Goodbye BedStuy, Bushwick, the Village, Toronto, Brampton
Goodbye corner cracks, cracks on the corner, crack on the corner of your bed
Goodbye lead, paper, everything toxic
Goodbye skyline, blaring computer screen
Goodbye screams in pillows for hands
Goodbye blue sky, bubble gum pop pink crushes – like stronger than love
Goodbye alleyways, used tub water
Goodbye my sister: my first love, first shoulder, first spine, last love
Goodbye inny belly button
I will live with you in the dirt of old quarters
And love you between purple velour coffins