To Save You, I, Chemo, Begin By Burning
I would hide your gray within my gray. I would hide your blue inside my blue. I would wrap copper wire around your wrists. I would sort pine needles from their branches. I would hide your scream in my poison. I would hold your wine in my lung. I would set your flight patterns on fire. I would study toothaches & mouths. I would cross-stitch your name onto my hip. I would catch plagues in my teeth. I would eat the decomposing forest floor. I would give rust to your fetus. I would boil your esophagus in my lantern. I would give you the choice of chisel or hammer. I would drip sap into your engine. I would sing you the wrong words. I would glue scales onto your gums. I would burn & burn & burn & we would breathe in the smoke & I would beg you to weep.
