words you’d expect to use
are hereby banned
for the duration of
this conversation
instead of nation
we will say blanket
instead of cacophony
we say rust
instead of chaos
we shall say engine
for scream
instead we say the language of love
which is like a blanket
over rust
flaking off from the rough shake
of the engine that propels us here
to the carnival
which we say instead of saying
brushfire
which we say instead of saying
a civil debate
which we say instead of saying
what we mean which is
a way of saying we don’t know
what we mean when we insist upon
speaking of the language of love
while the blanket
bursts into flame
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