calm as an ironing board / stressed as the walls foreign as an enemy / familiar as the enemy music knows no enemies reigned as a god / resigned as most of the dead rewarded as a child /pell-mell as egg shell vile as only myself shelf-life of a plucked fruit gone untreated weening mental state of the recently unteated soft as sputum / rooted as generations of defeat prattling like we'll never have our fill riddled as an ant hill