Maru-Kaite-ftw

Dappleshadow padded confidently through the camp, her head and tail held high. It seemed as if all the clan had been in good spirits this past moon. And all the beautiful roses from the rose bushes were in full bloom, and being put to good use! She could see cats giving them to each other right and left, she herself had one to give out as well. Held in her jaws, careful of any stray thorns she may have missed, was a beautiful blood red rose. She knew exactly who she wanted to give the rose to. The challenge was finding him. The dappled she-cat walked into the warrior's den, blinking in the change of light. Outside it was pretty sunny. In the

I am the girl who hides between moth eaten paper backs And slips into bookstores and devours leather bound spines I am chloroform lips bitten down, red and rosy Ink stained finger tips that fold book pages between my pupils I'm the girl who drowns herself in coffee and cough drops While remaining curled between Tennyson and Steinbeck Wasting days wondering why grass is green And how it can be greener for others and not I Then I realized its all artificial food colouring And polystyrene picket fences Sticky notes yellowed at the edges reminding myself how to smile I've pasted them on my skin in makeshift paper Mache armour But l