words slip away

words don’t feel
like words anymore
whispered over and over
until consonants unravel
and curl into shapes
on my tongue that slide around and
tie themselves up
into nothing new.

so it was that i knew what
i was saying
before i added more
vocabulary.
now sounds splinter into
pieces of meaninglessness.
i
am
left with phonemes
that won’t morph
saying the same nothings
over
and
over
again.




--02/01/2012