tiny words
'went to the gas station
opened my mouth
filled my stomach
with gasoline
lit a match
and swallowed it in
-burned myself
smoked with fire
i spread like charcoal
smeared in a kid's hand
stenched and charred black
dispersing to the pristine clouds
deploring the blue vault
as a black shitake flower
suffocating lungs
with a dire myth
then went to the ocean
and devoted myself
to no resistance
and drowned .......
cutting my lips with sharp
visceral shale waiting
for the sharks to knaw
my weightless lips and
useless mouth ..........
while the rest of me
travelled in the bellies
of fish ..............
......................
.......................
.......................
fed by tiny words .
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXX XXCD XXXX XDXX ACXX XXAX B XXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 105 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 8 |
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