8:48pm October 6, 2014

➸ Guitar Strings by autisticat on deviantART

you told me my guitar posture was wrong
as i tried to play with slipping
strings through my fingers but yours
slipped through my hair later that week and
i let the guitar fall along with the
little-girl barrettes – plastic dangle beads,
ladybugs, ribbons and all

“made you look like a little hippie,
those ladybugs,” you said later
with fireflies in your hair and i smile
because i can’t catch the dancing lightning rods
there or anywhere so i let my fingers
slip through your hair like the guitar strings but i
don’t want to let the strands fall, not this time.

I wrote this at 2:50 am with only minor revisions since then. Fictional love poem. ????