Slow pains sparkle like tin pans most nights
Most nights when we sleep on our sides and our wrists
Yours; mine; I cannot tell without more pause but
All the same they are inescapable yet effervescent.
[If Faulkner uses abject one more time I will...]
There are troubles with this tongue and this teeth
And I cannot express them now but in time
In time, all the mistakes will be crossed out.