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THE LAST TWO SPEAKERS OF A DYING LANGUAGE REFUSE TO TALK TO ONE ANOTHER

Elizabeth I
in full costume
is also a paintbrush
fluid & sincere, not delusional
Miss Furniture Display
in love with Jodie Foster
Bees can count to four,
prefer sex with orchids
am I in love with Jodie Foster?
can recognize faces
tricked into thinking
we are strange flowers
circle lightly
refusing to talk
is falling out
is falling out
Feeling bitter, needy Lizzie
won’t shake my hand
from her high dwelling
touches & aches & speaks of Sheba
won’t touch my face
my cortex
“don’t always feel like it”
is an alien
is not an alien
“Welcome to my country”
replaced with bad work habits
a paintbrush
tricked into love