these superficial veins
it’s not too good
to be true,
so i lie
taking the edge
off some rude
awakening
it’s not so much
out of touch,
but out of
interest…
you open your mouth,
but those words fail me
i open my mouth
as it hits me…
like some rogue wave’s
crushing collapse
over the
distant s
inapse but gone
past parting heys
there’s nothing left
in that (vein)/all the same
day old
taste
opened my mouth
all you hear is the sea
i opened my mouth
but you’re…(words fail me)