22 words i said when i couldn’t hold you (poème)

     slowly drifting into a static interference

     with so many years spent on

     the crumbling edge of disappearance,

     you're melting on the carnal melodies of

     my saccharine tone;

     your ears had failed to resist

     you and i— we're alone together

     on that slightly stiff chair

     you're laying awake as you linger between

     writing the morning blues and spilling ink,

     senselessly pulling the strings

     of your paper's veins

     your ears still fail to resist

     sizzling telephone wires keep bleeding

     into one another, senselessly

     under your honey-eyed sight;

     numbers become mouths and eyes.

     my syllabes fall like a guillotine, abiding,

     fading into the depths:

     to the sun of your arms,

     to the moon of my embrace

     you and i— we're alone together