UNTITLED
by Gigi Noor
UNTITLED
The taste of cold-old coins, metallic iron in your mouth
Copper of your own life, childhood dreams no longer at your fingertips
Ruckus daughter, sink the sharp edges of a razorblade
in the flesh of your lips and lick glass shards from beneath the heel of your boots.
Blue-faced evening primrose, your tongue will become
meat if you stick it out
So swallow your teeth,
your miseries.
Don’t let them in.
Don’t let them in.