Heard Words
Little Inconsistencies Insisting We Or rather I Should reconsider The way your tongue Forms letters To words To curve Around the truth In waves Inevitable ways To deceive But you concede to the simplicity Of language Of me Hanging On your every bitter word Served lukewarm To what you assume Is an unsophisticated palate I have it There on the tip On the pink Of my tongue The taste of us Undone by your lies Little Letters Littered At my feet I worked late I worked straight Through lunch I’m just not feeling much In the mood So I brood In the corner And think Think Think On the receipts That you leave Lying around The whispered conversations The sensation That we are not alone That your time Is not your own That you owe More to amex than you have spent On me, or us Or them And this love Breeds contempt Breathes And then Clears its head It will not be bent We have not developed Its elasticity This love Will break Wi...