Who are they,
standing up inside me?
Why do I start at
chapter three?
From conception,
I've felt the unspeakable us.
Birth began my
"face-bumping-into-glass" as experience.
I grow from a
brittle, genetic trust.
They never asked
me my name or where I was from.
They claim this
body I care take of as mine.
I perform
appearances with them to sooth the hysteria.
I let them encode
my spine,
a record of their
private traumas.
Where they are
bonded together,
I am a vacant
feeling filling me.
I have eyes, they,
the reins of a horse.
They whip me and I
cannot see where or why.
I stand apart from
them and collapse into my blindness.
My anus is my only
ear
they use my
hearing for salt and pepper remarks.
Now I only
communicate in tones of tense and relax.
Otherwise speech
polarizes me.
They put excuses
into my mouth to improve my smile.
I have smelled
where they touch each other.
Every day they
hand me
an unknowable
piece of their death.
Certainty is my
only near-death experience.
They often speak
about touching me.
I'm superstitious
about reacting in their presence.
I want to bleed
then finger-paint for them to see.
I crave their
frenzy over eating me.
Their thoughts use
me as objects in transit.
They take their
sticks of authority and beat me at loving.
My nervous system
has no appendages to embrace them.
They show me what
pain is.
It is the bedrock
of how to value.
I feel close to
their private truth by lying to myself.
Their unconscious habits
preoccupy my mind.
I keep a strongbox
filled with unpresentable rage.
When they take my
sense of "us" and separate it,
I die every time.
When they are
intimate, I want them to lie on me.
I feign
intelligence to run ahead of their expectations.
I sleep with their
dreams as carnal to me.
They spit on me with
hollow words.
I like it.
I give them
answers to be alone.
My hands are their
deformed genitalia,
thunderously
clapping in public.
They made me kiss
success then take a shower.
I am gifted with
nothing to offer them but me.
My creativity sins
against their God.
I lick their
wounded spirits fronting me.
Riddled by parents
forces rapture in my soul . . .
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