Red Migraine

The redbreast kills and kills itself against the window Sooner or later the blood in the breast will break the window into hundreds of pieces you can swallow whole Keep swallowing The redbreast loves you and wants you to remember the love So it makes you puke into the toilet blind I was blinded by love And drowned in an empty bathtub spitting up birdshit Covered in red feathers • Sometimes the redbreast likes anting with lit cigarettes safety pins paper cuts God that feels good It wraps everything in pretty pink gauze the color of fake sunset Look it is a pink soul! It wants to get naked and it wants it to hurt Red teeth red toes Open mouths Who keeps pressing my head into the sidewalk inside the bathroom Who keeps the lights on the lights stay on Who dissolves on my tongue Who flies from my finger • The redbreast sits inside behind your left eye behind your right and cleans its babies with its beak Scrubs its babies clean Shakes its tail feathers to scour the floor behind your forehead and scours the floor red My brain is a cutter My initials are beats per second Scrubbed down to zero by the rubies in the halo I whispered your name into the red air and you answered