talk

and there are a million things
that i should never never say
i will stuff it down
stomp it
eat it eat it eat it eat it
chew the black asphalt
the blithe ubiquitous gravel
bland iron ozone
masticated with the tears
shed in silence with the blood from my bitten tongue
like i used to do when i was
young
so many years
ago

rock

i will dress up
in my necklace of stone
my pendant of polished concrete block
it swings in sharp arcs
it cracks my clavicle
i can match it with the iron bracelets
chafing my white wrists
i'll go to town with this rock around my neck
and if i fall in
the water
i'll drown
drown
drown