it wears you down smooth. neat as the unfurrowed brow of its next victim. mother holds our hands firmly as we cross- baby takes a tumble in the road- but baby, bae af, gets up.
violence loves, more explicit than we, in the pause occupied between our breaths. less noble but more real. love> embryonic, ****** goth (at last!) baby drips forthright into pieces, ***-lunged in the afternoon sun from windowlings- useless. head-lolling and good enough.