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Unsent Letters II - To Gray, From Lacey Oct 7 2025

you grind your teeth so loud

i hear your enamel safeword through the wall

every night

you launch from the world like a hypersonic

missile to crumple on our bombed-out couch

you glower at a phone that glowers back at you

for three straight hours and then you

cook more pasta

than i could eat in a week and then you

think my music drowns you out

saying at least i

use social media to stay informed

saying i like stupid girls

but- saying

i will be okay if i can survive

another year probably

some smiling yellow xanny bars would reset

your jaw we're all in this

shit but you don't have to breathe it in

you don't have to splash when you swim

when you're not working you're working out when you're not working

out you're working out your stress on some girl

you think is beneath you girls you can leave

covered in maps

of continents we'll never see

you think i don't do real work

you call me precarious

like we aren't all

one more election one more crash

one more east coast superstorm away

like we're headed for retirement homes

for deathbeds instead of tarps on the ground

by the way if you want me

if you want to do real work with me

say more than three words to me

do your own goddamn dishes gray