I Wanted Your Sadness

 

Donna Dallas

 

As a diversion from my black hole

that ended up swallowing us both

 

But we’re better now - smarter

lightheaded when walking

as we sift through clouds for one another

 

I picked up your sadness 

folded it neatly

gifted it back to you

in a picture frame from Tiffany & Co.

with love

from deep space

from no man’s land

where we seek each other out

in some bullpen operation

       that will leave us crippled       

(real) emotion

 

Only tormented lovers

know this desperation 

this go down with the ship

ride or die fate

I’ve accepted 

 

The frame of sadness

dusty with age

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Donna Dallas has appeared in a plethora of journals, most recently Beatnik Cowboy, Horror Sleaze Trash and Fevers of the Mind.  She is the author of Death Sisters, her legacy novel, published by Alien Buddha Press. Her first chapbook, Smoke and Mirrors, launched in 2022 with New York Quarterly. Her second chapbook, Megalodon, launched in 2023 with The Opiate. Donna has served on the editorial team of Red Fez and NYQ.