here's a secret i will share with you:
bigger lips hide bigger secrets.
except for those secrets that are too big for your lips,
those are kept deep within your guts.
of those, you can carry two
maybe three
before the tension tears you to pieces.
and as for me?
my secrets are kept in a secret place
as all secrets should be.

a man came up to me today
and told me I might look prettier
if I coated my mirror
with the blood of the golden goose
and call me cynical
or a caveman
or a luddite
or whatever
but I didn’t believe him.