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Date Posted: 07:52:19 03/31/05 Thu
Author: Temple Swann
Author Host/IP: 64-217-45-91.x.newroadstelecom.net / 64.217.45.91
Subject: "because no parenthesis can hold me."

because no parenthesis
can hold me. and words
are sweetest when eaten
in person, in halves, in
small, bite-sized pieces
so as to enhance flavor and
enunciation.

because i am
uncomfortable with the
hands rough as concrete
and the voice smooth as
brick i would be golden if
i were not so tarnished
bronzed and held up high
as a chorus of hallelujahs
and brought back down with
a heavy handed godheavy amen.

because you are
untrue to the bliss that
makes the bruises on your
inner-thighs and the swelling
of your lips when kisses make
them blood-blisters you would
be obsidian under an oyster
shell--no pearl for the wicked,
or the (un)true.

because i am
words scrawled in charcoal
words scrawled in bruises
words scrawled.

because you are
art etched into my bones
art etched into my flesh
art etched.

because i am
underwater when the time
comes to breathe and during
any other time wherein it is
feasible to live; the tide picks me up
and throws me back down
with heavy handed godheavy bliss.

because words are
cannibalistic they eat
each other and themselves,
perfect pretty annihilators
that will one day rule the world,
find followers one preposition
at a time. and because no parenthesis
can contain me and i can't breathe
when they try to

squeeze me in,
cut me off,
make me unwhole,
an afterthought in the middle
of
the
sentence, break
the
pattern
and try to fit
me in a
mold that
couldn't possibly
hold

me.

t. (the poet formerly known, here at least, as Ashley Owen Smith.)

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Re: "because no parenthesis can hold me." -- AAAGGGSSS, 16:36:52 04/14/05 Thu
- Re: "because no parenthesis can hold me." -- Temple Swann, 04:50:28 04/16/05 Sat