Cracked Pot Schemes
Call it what it was:
a paper house marriage,
with cracks painted over
by trips to the piggy bank
and tea parties.
an endless hurricane in a teapot,
a crackpot scheme of love,
leaving us china doll chipped.
you wouldn’t get half the price
for that heart on the market anymore.
Ferris Ty Taylor
Sat 28th Aug 2021 04:52
I think that prior knowledge of your biography makes this a better read and for accessibility to a wider audience, this could use a contextualising extra stanza.
BUT without the contextualiser, (absolutely a made-up word that should be a thing) this piece maintains a mystique.