Gum Tissue

Central incisor implant metal protrudes, unveiled by the millimeter daily

As pink gum tissue blackens corroding fleshy placeholder

Into that open look upon a canyon, the leaping haunch

Contemplating biting into suicides maw

Eat and being eaten all at once

For a curtain upper lip protecting that Darth Vader smile

To peer, breathe agoraphobic casting net crimping

A body to pull into itself so that the skin obliterates

The pressure of the universe tightening

Repeated attempts to decipher the illusions of intimacy

Connection, being, witnessing, presence, immortality in recognition

Of being seen, of seeing

The surface itself disintegrates

In all the buzz-saw julienned ventricles of Walmart

The cobblestone plastics for infant savior’s revelry ales

Inebriating meditations into fast forward commands on time

Illusionary mermaid swishes wanting fuck-lore shimmering scales

Hulking lycanthrope growl pornography posturing gym memberships

The tail fins and the fur molted like powdery raven feathers

Whizzing across the edge of the gorge pelting corneas, teeth, and ledges

Resting hesitant temperamental for a sun blade to slice the fortitude to sustain

Clear-cut fleshy atonement broken-mountain diatribe condemning the lot

The grain-alcohol bathtub of besotted clarity for the blob distraction

The something-to-do of it all

Tongue grazes over the gum-line feeling death lick the memories

Of the first time the whack came, the childhood psychology lessons of loss

Permanence and social awkwardness blockade mouth up here talking

To the vultures, scorpions, and dust-mites ferrying the recycle

Knowing by millimeter the inevitable unsustainable nature prevails