I open up my body,
whole and spit-shined eager
and inside there is only a mouth.
The mouth says
You are not an easy person to love.
Curious, I reach into this mouth
and pull out the tongue.
I make the tongue say it again, and again.
You are not an easy person…
You are not an easy person to…
And it’s so silly looking.
This little flip-flopping thing
in the palm of my hand.”
– Clementine von Radics, “A Bad Weekend in Three Parts,” published in Drunk in a Midnight Choir
Notes: Poem Source: Boston Poetry Slam. Photography: Feelslike
listen to your heart, not your inner tongue.
Yes, all that chattering is painful.
haha that’s quite a visual! <3
Diana xo
🙂
If you are not easy…try to change that… if that is also not easy…well others are too busy..they will walk away..then it will not be so easy to stay alone…all day
I had to noodle this for a while…yes.
🙂
Sounds like a bad dream?
Ha!
The crap we tell ourselves.
That is Truth.
The visual of my tongue wiggling in my hand just cracks me up!
To tame the tongue is to harness the mind and wrap it in love. You again bring great thought stimulation David.
Smiling. Thanks Bill.