"I feel like so many of my poemshave been sounding like songsby Lana Del Rey. Where I am always..."

“I feel like so many of my poems

have been sounding like songs

by Lana Del Rey. Where I am

always chasing after someone

who doesn’t want to be caught.

Or how I am in love with a toxic man

whose lips bring me back to life.

There is nothing wrong with loving

someone who is bad but there is

something wrong with loving someone

who never wanted to be loved

in the first place. This is a realization

that I need to stop writing about you.

This is a realization that Lana had it

wrong all along, that you don’t

need to be bad for love to be good.”

- “I’m not a bad girl, honey,” - CB