Shaking my teeth loose on your table  The dullest white squares I'll never be  Now that you've picked each one apart you can't look at me  I'll probably lose you now  But at least the ones I have still sparkle    Putting on your makeup everyday before he wakes up  So he could stomach your face now easier than he could without    Yeah this is love  This is all that you could want  Open equals heavier    Hold your hand out palm side up  Open, empty, light enough  Minutes all turn to months  This is one thing we have all learned  Equations always make up a sum  But it doesn't add up    Signing up for that second semester  Because you won't marry me without the degree  Once I fix things up right you wont be so embarrassed of me    But I'll never make it now    But at least looking in the mirror wont feel like lying    Posing for your still visions  Acedemic postcard prisons    Raise your chin, love    Purged a poem I swore was finished  Heaping lines half chewed unconscious    Settle on a plot, chalk another loss  Stage set for   Breathing and choking on swallowed conversations  Clutching and crawling for constant validation  Still nailed in the ruins of corporate co-dependence  Still stuck on the thought that you're the one exception    All the while the same    I'm worried that the purpose is  How I look, not how I lived  Let's get dolled up and play pretend   Cause nothing stays honest when  Every thought is cursed with intent  A pulse covered in skin and words covered in lips    The taste of regret as it leaves your stomach  Coating your tongue with every noun  Watery eyes the only thing that makes sense now    Spitting your insides out    Start over   Start over    Start over  Start over  Start over