February 10, Exquisite Game

1. Wrap your head around it.
2. Give your eyes cute names and shout them every time you blink.
3. Chew it if you feel like it.
4. Tattoo a green scarf to wear around your neck.
5. Turn the back of your hand toward me.
6. Feel this heart racing.
7. Come back.
8. Shake that ass and hope that no one is watching.
9. Kick the bucket way past your prime.
10. Keep walking. Trust me on this.

January 20, Home Game

1. Make a promise to yourself that you won’t be able to keep.
2. Go looking for a string to pull at.
3. Watch your snow-covered fields,
your comfortable cliffs,
your sleek city wastelands
all unravel.
4. Find a way to escape from wherever you wake up the next day.
5. Repeat the details of your every stolen glimpse or cowardly theft time and time again.
6. Make up for all of it with poetry and bad breath.
7. Throw away your shoes.
8. Tattoo “liar” on the soles of your feet.
9. Whenever you need to go somewhere, walk backwards.
10. Return to square one, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over  and over  and over   and   over    a n d   o v e r    a   n   d       o   v   e    r      a     n     d           o     v      e        r                   a        n         d                    o           v              e                  r                       a            n              d                           o                   v                         e                           r                        a
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