Lana Del Rey

Match the sun that’s slowly sinking

at the height of afternoon

In the heat of summer evening

Like a phoenix like a chemtrail like a wavelength No

one’s claiming

Don’t tell anyone but

part of my reasoning for taking the flight class was this idea

that if i could become my own navigator- a captain of the sky

that perhaps i could stop looking for direction- from you.

Well, wha

I could have said something but i was quiet

because pilots aren’t like poets

they don’t make metaphors between life and the sky.

I acknowledged who you were for the first time.

I didn’t call you by any other name

I let you know that I knew the true nature of your heart-

that it was evil

that it convinced me that darkness is real

that the devil is a real devil

and that monsters don’t always know they are monsters.

You said I don’t know who I am

But I do know who I am.

I love Rose Gardens

I buy violets every time someone leaves me

I love the great sequoias of Yosemite

They write that i’m rich and i am but not how they think

i have a safe i call the boyfriend box

and in it every saved receipt

every movie theater ticket just to remind me

of all the things i’ve loved and lost and loved again

unconditionally

it’s the little things that make me smile

i keep them just for myself

Sweet the way it tastes in my mouth to say your name

sweet like when I was young, driving down those roads before we

were done

before any big battles were lost or won

unbeknownst to everyone

except for you and me.

The universe exists

because we are aware of it

I always had something gentle to give-

all of me in fact

it’s one of the beautiful things about me

it’s one of the beautiful things about nature