If you ever considered
pulling me away from a car crash...

I can't write because I'm not
allowing myself to breathe...

Mamma Mia! Maestro, mute the music!
My mouth must meditate, moreso mediate...

My mother is a rickety house
amidst a city of skyscrapers...

I.
I am wearing headphones without listening to a...

There is a place where floods of fire collide,
where water burns against a bridge's brow...

I want to be worth more than your money.
Stop looking...

I walk around the house reciting poetry,
fully dressed against the weather's tantrums...

I've never known graffiti and energy drink,
never spent my youth in the corner...

Welcome to Australia.
The first time I had silence spitting at me...

They tumble off the page,
... letter...

When I go to sleep, a sheet
of paper threatens my throat...