speaking in tongues
for Kahil Jureidini

speaking in tongues.
i mean the way the sounds roll off that labial organ
like saliva alive alive-o… saliva alive alive-o
linger on the lingua
[franker on the franca]
the fatwah patois
videomatic idiomatic
give us a slug of the argot
of escargot
the gringo lingo
the vermicular vernacular
worming its way into the language
a blister on the Mother Tongue
it’s only words
and words are all
i have to take your heart away
(extinct as Thoracic Park)
extreme onion unction
tongue-and-groove junction
of lung removed-function
old/young luncheon at the old factory
olefactory stimulus, tremulous lips
slip of the tongue
sleep of the young
soothing unguent
balmy salve
lubricant ointments
lubra appointments
defoliant emollient
global roaming in the
robal gloaming
various vagarious shockjock theorem viper serum
vituperous
blamegame
glossalalia

it’s only words


and words are all I have.


it’s only words…




text © rob walker, 2012. (Previously unpublished.)

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"speaking in tongues"
by robwalkerpoet

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