broken_hearts_on_drains angelita I notice them more and more nowadays. Maybe you only get them in England - that broken-up, heart-shaped sign on every draincover you can find. I wonder if whoever designed them was feeling melancholic. Or, perhaps, I just am when I see one. gazes ahead 040208 ... unhinged or broken hearts down drains i was never one for the warm water to let the blood flow faster the warm water only takes away the pain the pain of bloodletting the biggest satisfaction next to the warm rusty flavor on my tongue licking my wounds like a cat falling asleep to the steady pulse of the poisoned blood seeping out of my wrists when i washed the hair dye out of my hair it looked conspicuously like blood swirling down the drain my excavated skeleton death grin coming to my lips that cold and cruel smile finding it's way more often to my down-turned mouth happy only with my lips my heart, eyes black more of a snarl really the love monster in me sick of being caged like the lion who paces the length of his bars restless and forlorn 041019 what's it to you? who go blather from