she says why
she says,
doesn't question it.

she says how
she says,
doesn't question it.

she say happy,
she says it out loud.
H she huffs
A she puffs
P-P-Y she sighs.

she questions it.
She gets up from warmth,
travels to the ocean,
looks at her reflection and says why, how.

With vigor I sit.
I sit and watch and sit and watch
the cries that spill from
overflowing bedsheets.
I watch knives carve away innocence,
washing it down with acid vinegar.
I watch the tears of those who know
no pain stream into a river
of ice and brick and useless words.
I watch myself, watching all of the
disfigured, dismembered, discovered
human race;
belong to,
holding on to,
the last breath of weak heaves.