dead ones fly

i shaved my face earlier this evening, and i didn't use shaving cream while shaving my mustache area.

i'm crying because of recent information, because of who i'm talking to, because of what i've seen and because of what i'm listening to.

i wiped the space between my nose and my lips with a tissue that was so white it burned my eyes. i was bleeding above my lip, the tissue baked my blood to brown--what used to be something of mine is croaked and bent brown on a tanning bed tissue.

my nose is running and the skin beneath anything falling from my nose burns.