Never Take Candy from a Stranger or Maybe You Should...

When the body betrays you,
Phillip Roth wrote speaking

both times I stopped
uh one two three four
tap tapping that's what it feels like
when suddenly your body isn't
what you think anymore


...such a deep maroon
purplish color
purple
patty
pickle
petunia
...how i want to get lost in
sunset words
coloring
gnawing back punches
waking me up in
day grouchiness...