If you lie If you liein shitafter a while you don’t notice the smelland you fearif you cleaned yourself upor leftyou’d miss the warmth It’s easierI’m toldto lieeven in shit Winter 1983

Breakdown Do not preventmy descent into madnessDemanding to know“what’s the matter?” I am being denied mattersplit, severed, impaled onroutine definitions being denied matter denied spirit denied lovelife denied earth denied universe denied flightvoice without soundsilence without stillnessnature denied nurture denied space denied song do not read more