I am ******* on a lemon, he lost his sour decades ago –
the pulpy, lampshade grind gathers in the rings of my throat, and burning like an enemy-girl.
She, with her knives and languages learned afresh, just for a pit: there are none left in my lemon, he has become so dry in her memory too, a four year cave.
Fear that he may vanish, and upon his last chance: nine. The lives I let spill in my mouth &
deaths I take responsibility for, ****** the eight, his skin and bones.
She comes wielding pillow cases, for the brain I have swallowed, and soon he is a carcass, better arid than shriveling in water, my lemon rather than a prune.
I gave her a go, and now I must leave or else I cannot save him by me, no lemonade to drink.