Pain (Neuropathy) ii.

 Breath.

Breath excreted
between yellow sour teeth
sudden and sharp


What does this mean,
sudden and sharp?
How can that be
that breath moving
between pursed lips
can be sharp?

Can we not be like a knife?
But, it is not like a knife
it has no sharpness
it cannot cut
no pain is set forth.

Breath excreted
between yellow and sour teeth
on the edge of a scream

Screams do not mean
listen to me, listen
for the pain in the scream
it's there.

But you cannot feel,
what is in the scream
me undiluted
me at the moment
that the shot shatters
and I am gone.

But you cannot feel,
what is in the scream,
me undiluted
me at the moment
that the knife slides home
and I am gone

Me undiluted,
me at the moment
when the fall ends
and I am gone

Me at the moment
when I tire
of sipping for air
me at that moment
and I am gone

Me at that moment
when an invisible world
has fallen and crushed my chest
me at that moment
and I'm gone

Me undiluted,
me at the moment
when all that is left
is bone and sinew
me at that moment
and I'm gone

Me undiluted,
me at that moment
when the hot blackness
and burning fat
is all that is left
me at that moment
and I'm gone

Screams do not mean
listen to me, listen
for the pain in the scream
it's there.

It bites at me
the scream hurts
leaving lungs and bone and sinew
broken behind the pain
listen to the scream
and learn.
it means.

Breath.