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Feb 16, 2010
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Three
I tilt back my head
Until my throat is straight,
Not so I can swallow swords
And not so I can swallow men,
But so I can chime my teeth
Against the hilt of a certain slant of Christ.
~
They want you to make yourself smaller.....
Don't let the scroll between you shoulders
Unroll until it hurts you to spread so far.
Let the tongues of bells
Toll inside you,
Let the rings of sound
Rip through you like a flock of mouths.
Until my throat is straight,
Not so I can swallow swords
And not so I can swallow men,
But so I can chime my teeth
Against the hilt of a certain slant of Christ.
~
They want you to make yourself smaller.....
Don't let the scroll between you shoulders
Unroll until it hurts you to spread so far.
Let the tongues of bells
Toll inside you,
Let the rings of sound
Rip through you like a flock of mouths.
— Diatom Shells, Feb 16, 2010
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Critiques
U K Atiyodi
16 years 3 months ago
The bell tolls
Kailashana
16 years 3 months ago
Got you about the numbers,
Seren
16 years 3 months ago
Dear Shells
Kailashana
16 years 3 months ago
lol. notice how I don’t
Seren
16 years 3 months ago
NEVER ~!~!~!~! ya just made
lyz
16 years 3 months ago
You are a great writer
whitescatter
16 years 2 months ago
nice one..