4.17.2009

12:26 AM : “A Delicate Sense of Balance – Pelican”

 

notice the scar there                 left

on my lips            yours

left                       

in such a hurry              pulling

the dead surface              skin away

leaving them covered in               naked

with desperation : stained silk sheets

still speaking volumes between knit and finish

 

notice the scar there                        left.

 

it will scab in ice cream cone shaped

clots constantly enticing me to remove

them when i am angry              i give in

i let the mango and peach flavors slip down my throat

creating little frost-cicles on the windows             lining my esophagus

with millions of tiny amino acids,

i was attached to your alpha carbon.

 

notice the scar            there                        left.

 

It looks just like the one I got after

the chicken pocks I caught from that kid floyd in the first grade:

i will learn to accept its imperfection as beauty instead of vacancy

 

it’s spidery cursive shapes will emboss themselves among

the arching entryway above my front teeth                         creating rivers

 

flowing from dry ducts             heaving

waste from stale sink faucets expelling word shaped water                         falls.

 

notice the scar there                        left.

 

notice the scar there left.

 

 

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