thou canst cut but once

mankind is not kind
but a knife can amend this
then rue append this

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2019

colombine et pierrot

hey, tupelo mind
i strongly suggest you leave
i strongly suggest
you seek another mire
to plink your rotting lyre

hey, tupelo mind
i’ve scraped away your sweet songs
to find naught beneath
i’m allergic to honey
don’t make me your sex bunny

hey, tupelo mind
you cannot woo me
schtum, with roses ‘tween your teeth
do you believe i fancy
your phyllorhodomancy?

yeah, you strum and you jangle
in your bid to entangle
drying salty tears
with the hem of my slip dress
hey, tupelo mind

i don’t care if you have proof
please throw yourself from a roof
your love isn’t real
you just want to ride my flame
hey, tupelo mind

but love’s like a processed beat
chasing after music’s teat
come back, i need you
hey, pay attention to me
dear tupelo mind

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2019

give & take

you’re god of the gaps
those damned aureate spaces
filled to loathly flush
with tithes from the one true fleeced
who’ve nothing more to offer

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2018

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU CITRUS // Six Word Story #63

I’m used to crying in darkness.

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2016

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU CITRUS // Six Word Story #62

Eli, lama sabachthani?! Cue mommy issues

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2016