Content Warning: Description of blood/violence
And there is no door in this hall,
excepting the one
in my chest, meaning:
There is no door in me. See
There is no knob in my navel.
Which you could tug on or,
twist, jossle, jilt aside.
There is no copper
zipper in my side
which runs from groin to left armpit.
My hair there is not a
pull and I wax it now.
My lips are not the screw top of an
orange juice carton. Behind my teeth is
pen -- fountain -- ink -- squid son of an oil slick
but an ocean is on fire behind pursed, bulging lips.
No citrus in my lips’ purse. That handbag is hot.
Flick off. Flicker bird blood is
under allwings. Fire -- oil -- sapsucker.
You cannot trepentrate me. My trunk is no tree.
Hammer a hole in my skull and ink cometh.
Screw a screw in my nail, ink cometh.
Drive a nail in my tooth, ink cometh.
Dig a mineshaft in my heart. Blood is there still.
And besides, my head
is not a lampshade.
Meaning:
You cannot unscrew and replace
my eye
once it has burned out.