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Bambi Barker
ORAL ADDICTION

It's like
pulling taffy
and smoking pot
simultaneously
This oral
addiction
Suck you in
Breathe you out
Lip-sync love

It's like
a snake
slithering on
my central nerve
This oral
addiction
Outdoing vibrators
and Viagra
A tongue trophy
voyeurism

I've seen near answers in the some-
where windows of warm stations

felt their pause and threshold
over unmusical plots of marrow

I've taken their white wavelengths
into my separate heart then bled

and slept with their intentions.
I've watched desperate trains

pass filled with thoughtful men and
women headed for their offices

felt their pause across the tracks.
I've cried in my car then drove very

very far. raced through the fog of a
thousand helpless moments, swerving

at imaginary telephone polls desperately
afraid of the slightest answer.
peter schwartz