2nd Draft: Buying Love Poetry at a Thrift Store

[RiverNotch]

Nits. The poem might be bettered as a whole if the first few lines led to a complete sentence, i.e.:

Its pages have gone so dull
paper cuts become kisses
that could never be,

The "and" in line three could be removed, and "tries" could be modified:

yellowed love tries and fails
at not forgetting it was born
from red,

A modifier feels like it's missing for "ghostly / footsteps":

while the poet is some ghostly
footsteps in an attic

And, for the sake of rhythm, the last lines:

no one cares enough to clutter
with more clutter.