"i wish him dead or away. that, it seems, is the impossibility. that being free." |
i imagine the spilling of spit from between cracked lips. he salivates at the smell of rot. my death scent makes him hard. lips pressed firmly to the ear piece- gulping down my heartbeats with each wet intake- each wheeze. gouge out an eye or sever a limb- i will be saintlike. use the relic as a child's rattle. it is love, this red smiling wrist. what else could it be? love, you've hijacked my headset- you are distorting sound and turning every chorus sour. sour. how did he manage this... each spider faced lie threads its silk through my hair. each strand he knows by name. his nose recalls my post bed blood smell, his darkness has committed to it memory and his heart will fondle it on january mornings. down past my desert's history and my metropolitan disposition, let me make way through the woods. your hands cannot find, will not touch, cannot clutch or tear at me. dear man, holding each breath hostage beneath your thumb is no way to go about things. let us be civil. let us lie. do not chew my sinew- suck my marrow- place my heart in a jar. only be kind. be kind. how this malice has found its way under my pen point- has poisoned my verse- eaten my voice- and shit out my poetry. |