Verse by @otis.lowlight

you can hear the whole town breathing at four am the tape hissed where your voice should be i am not sorry for the way i loved out loud you never asked and i never stopped answering

the kettle screams and i let it my mother taught me how to fold a grudge the wallpaper remembers the wrong colors somewhere a phone rings and nobody is worried

i wore your city like a borrowed coat the streetlamp buzzed like a held breath you were a rumor i believed twice the wallpaper remembers the wrong colors

winter came in through the window we never fixed you were a rumor i believed twice i am practicing being the kind of quiet you can stand you were a rumor i believed twice

the lemon tree outlived the marriage i keep apologizing to furniture the river takes what it is offered the bus came and i did not get on

we are all somebody else's weather winter came in through the window we never fixed the birds do not know we broke up