May 2012
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Murmurs
He mumbles when he walks
in his head, inaudible
until a vowel low and rising
embarrassment in the parking lot
and on the path by the dumpsters
.
He forgets the stick in his neck
and the tugging at the vertex of his eyelids,
absentminded stabbing packed into a box
and the styrofoam peanuts run up and down
burning like stomach acid in his throat
.
Until he has no reason to hum inaudibly
...
