I am an embarrassing twitch
Of failing ignorance that’s why
I carry cherry wine blossoms
Like an abandoned retrofit
Of eccentricity in a red blue pickup
Truck of maddening laughter
All my Thursday evenings have turned
My frenzy readings into a bounty head
Within a homecoming bullet
That’s why I am learning to forget my
Speech just like my country
Marching with its tongue tied
To a barbed wire of insanity
Of course, our history
Is a barbaric irony
That’s why I live in my hometown turf now
Safe & Sound
Carrying the kind of silence
We feign to detest
My country becoming a vowel
Deathstruck in a spectacle
We hate to confess.
