Laying there stagnant My fingers percuss Your ivory spine Striking tendon strings With fleshy hammers Filling your thorax With the vibrations Of a thousand wasps Stinging at your heart As you stung at mine Injecting resin Injecting reason To stay forever And I ignite you You, the Brazen Bull, Cremating your heart Still beating “I love you” In boiling Morse code But howling His name In perfumed clouds of Carbon Monoxide Insensitively