treadmill
Madison Van Buren
if I think about sex with you
I run faster than ever before
it’s like Usain Bolt
for girls with sports asthma
I think everybody is afraid
I’m going off the deep end
even though I haven’t even
been in the pool that long
and I would know
because my fingers prune, like,
really fast
they all care
that’s love,
love is not allowing me
to tweet dumb shit
just in case I’m selected
for the presidency, one day
I’ve always been the problem
in that way
but love has been allowing me
to also be the solution
what’s that Lana Del Rey song?
“you’re my cult leader
and I’m your jazz singer”
I can’t really sing
but yeah, you can be the piece of shit
no good
cult leader
because I know you like that
especially when everyone else hates it
the more it’ll cost me, the harder its gets you
and it’ll get you, trust me
Madison Van Buren is a sometimes poet, most times film editor based out of Brooklyn, New York. She looked at a lot of different bios in order to write this one - how’d she do?
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