not one word today. today will be the day. nothing to hang from your lips. not another. it all ends today, the saying and the said, the haunting and the promise. not one word. don’t you say not one word to me young man. don’t you say another word or i’ll tell your father. your mother. your husband. your sister. all your friends. nothing to scrape against the wall. today if not any other. i’ll not have one word of it. pull me up with coat hangers through my cheek. we’ll not talk about this, we won’t split open trees and dig our teeth into the pulp. we won’t dig our hands into the dirt and finger pebbles between the sediment.
she laughed and ran calloused fingers through my hair, you took the words right out of my mouth.