Lies everywhere
Lies everywhere

They say a smile is a curve
that sets everything straight

They lie

Does the mouth not twitch
Do the cheeks not contort
When lips part to reveal the gum
In an act […]

If these words, those words

Cannot quicken the beats of your heart,

Cannot cause a surge of your emotive heat

I’d stop using them, yes,

I’d say them no more

But these words, those words

Are […]

If these words, those words

Cannot quicken the beats of your heart,

Cannot cause a surge of your emotive heat

I’d stop using them, yes,

I’d say them no more

But these words, those words

Are […]

With lips

                shredded like a masquerade’s dress

And faces

                masked in petroleum jelly,

blinding their dryness

                Harm is at hand

With skin

        […]

I

Observation;

Gaping at a warring world,

Wedged in a web

Of wobbling waste

There are men,

Mighty or mean,

Made or marred,

Musing in this muddy mass

Tilting with the […]