...139, 2.

By Brody McVittie

(Another) collection of free-verse, poetry and prose dealing with the universal concepts of loss and longing.

A fictional and heartbroken Romeo transcribes the stages of a relationship, from the tension and excitement of the chase all the way through to the bitter end.

Wrapped in self-loathing and vicious introspection, this volume e

• Language: English
• Publisher: 4th & Goal Publishing
• Release date: Jun 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781775087632

Book preview

…139, 2.

139 Pages of Pining 2.

(aka 139 Pages of Whining.)

Brody McVittie

Table of Contents

The Ones to Get You

You walked into a room full of people

Older Indiscretions, Newer Consequences

Okay, you win, but

Inappropriate

More than mom likes whiskey

Mehrabian’s Rule

This one is about tattoos … kinda

…more than that toy when I was six

You’d look good in the passenger seat

The one about that thing I got you for your birthday

The realest shit I’ve ever wrote

Being sick as a kid sucks

Always did like playing games

Stairs, and shit

Seven Seasons

Protective

You’re better to stay away

Interlude

The Ones to Keep You

This section is decidedly smaller

7 & 7

7 & 9

You’re Double-Stuffed Oreos

Us, by the numbers

Does this make my ass look fat?

Chicken Soup

Saturdays are for

Sundays are for

Your clothes are on the floor

Favorite and Four-letter Word

I’m an acquired taste

I’m Bi-Polar, maybe

Hotel hallways, week analogies

You should have been a boxer

If relationships are like fights

I’m no good for you

This will end violently

Pedestals are prisons

Ten Things I Don’t Deserve!

You’re distractingly pretty and suitcase small

I guess that’s why they call it the blues

I like spending time with you

What happens when wine

Editors and English Teachers

You’re four feet, one hundred miles

I like you more than sushi

Interlude

The Ones to Lose You

For such a cute voice

I like you more

You’re on your way out the door

Mine

Tiny Eventualities

I hurl words like weapons

You woulda been perfect

AZ

I’m fucking you

I messed up

80 Pages in,

You’re better than me

I’m losing you on rerun

Roses to Rust

Little Johnny Reiner

Tell your parents

I’m at least every cliché

Because ‘Gilbert’ isn’t