for light sleepers

that’s where they crossed the line,
replaced it with transparency,
restricted our pondering of water’s psyche
our drinking, bathing beauty
buddy up the hydrogens along with the oxygens
let’s violate them, too

what’s the worst they could do?
ask you to get back on the sidewalk?
that’s about it
smell. it’s your best sense yet
you can’t feel or hear putrescence

since my lover’s been gone
i traded kisses for optometrists

a to z thinks their noise is bliss
we think our noise is
piss the neighborhood off before the first chord rings
oscillating wrists between hips
turn the radio off before the first chord rings

the sword’s mightier than the pen
when nobody’s listening
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