Please Take Your Love Away From Me
︎︎︎ Vivi Hayes
︎ Mar 15, 2025
Flirt out the signal durations
—champion centrifugal forces
to a cloth doll full of feathers.
I’m multivocal,
you know.
I used to be her
and I was so precious.
Disable BIOS memory options;
my bedroom is Giger steel.
We wane and swell
Thursday
Sunday
I spot your ankle
through the linen sheet
and it’s real, it’s like the floaters.
I’ll leave you on the surveillance
couch, your muffled beaming.
Destiny for the PS4:
siphoning your dander,
“you sucker!”
Your wallet the way you left it,
we share without asking.
Lay prone in the appliance section,
next to the discount polemic
—in wait for new magic
—champion centrifugal forces
to a cloth doll full of feathers.
I’m multivocal,
you know.
I used to be her
and I was so precious.
Disable BIOS memory options;
my bedroom is Giger steel.
We wane and swell
Thursday
Sunday
I spot your ankle
through the linen sheet
and it’s real, it’s like the floaters.
I’ll leave you on the surveillance
couch, your muffled beaming.
Destiny for the PS4:
siphoning your dander,
“you sucker!”
Your wallet the way you left it,
we share without asking.
Lay prone in the appliance section,
next to the discount polemic
—in wait for new magic
Vivi Hayes is a writer from Atlanta and the associate editor of Perfectly Imperfect Newsletter. Her work has appeared in ExPat Press, No More Prostitutes, and elsewhere. vivihayes.net
Also by Vivi: Dual Shrub Mountain