Can you feel a word
honey
before it leaves your mouth
smack
escaping into the air
bitch
where it can never go back?
Or a color, can it caress your eyes
red
with soft slender fingers
white
or great fat ones
yellow
that might gouge them out?
I can feel a word, deep inside my bones
stupid
when you whisper it to me
stupid
rattling inside my head
stupid
before I can shut it out and it all goes
black.