[redacted] Quotes

“so the poem hurt you.
it was supposed to.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]

“every dream I have about kissing you
ends with blood on my hands.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]

“The poet is afraid to make any place feel too much like home because then she might have to stop running.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]

“A BRIEF INTERLUDE It’s been three years since I’ve spent the night with someone who liked me enough to get breakfast in the morning. Still, I spread my heart thin like butter on toast, hoping someone else will come along and snatch it off my plate. Still, I stumble half-dressed out of other people’s apartments and treat myself to coffee on the way home. This is not a poem that seeks to make a spectacle of loneliness.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]

“The poet lusts after emotionally unavailable people because she doesn't have to worry about commitment. The poet desperately wants commitment.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]

“I know I have bigger problems than who I’m not kissing right now but three margaritas in, I wonder how safe your number is in my phone.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]