Afflatus

Fake Blue Water Lullaby Song

pretty little sticky thing caught my tongue

and I think it’s time to come clean

and wipe down my benches

with fake lime liquid particles

and faded yellow cloths. 

twisted the blue plastic out of my teeth,

wiped the mustard from my lips

(was laid on too thickly anyway)

popped the fishscales out from my eyes,

smiled.

  

let the rose water run thick and hot

in the bathtub, let in flow in and out

of all my cavities, like it and I were

almost one

(I’m already so much rose water

anyway),

opened my flabby mouth and swallowed. 

pretty little green thing got stuck in my tongue.

time to come clean.