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one oh three
destruction instructions:
run faster

Janet Kuypers
poem based on her 1997 poem “run faster”
2/8/15

I keep doing this to myself
I keep coming back
I beg for attention

I don’t know how to stop
because
I don’t know how to be alone

so I keep giving you
one more chance to make it perfect
one more chance to rescue the damsel

but I’m not a damsel
and I’m not being rescued

and I don’t know which one of us
lit the match
and set this relationship on fire

I don’t know which one of us
turned the wheel of this semi
and set the wheels in motion
that started the 50 car pile up
and caused this fantastic car crash

I don’t know
you say it’s my nagging
    but if you weren’t so wrong all there time
    you’d never hear me complain
and you can’t yell at me
for my accomplishments
    I know I’m younger than you,
    and made more money than you,
    as an artist,
    so why can’t you win in the workforce?
And don’t yell at me
when other men are hitting on me
    that only means I’m good-looking,
    and I have more male friends anyway,
    you should really get over yourself —

I’ve always said
we’re perfect for each other

I don’t know why
you don’t get that

and you keep bringing up
all of these bad points,
and why do you keep saying
that I’m twisting
the knife in your back?

Because at this point,
even though I hate you,
I’ll never let go —
so you’ll just have to run faster.

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