by A. St. John
one day
We, beasts
began to speak
Tho didn’t we Mean
already?
With an ear, just what
gets messhered?
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Message how you dress it up is everything
so the question is
the vessel
is it justified in its duty
if a tongue’s tip sits up
on the ceiling of his or her house and
Ataptaptap
apuhpuhpuh
tuhtuhtuh
kuhkuhkuh
The Muscle-in-the-Mouth make dat
sethy rhyxmic wave motion
Dudat dance then u finna
gemmein tha mood ta understan
iamma
liabledumumba
but, uh
buhbuhbuh
A. St. John is a full-time graduate student and part-time employee whose interests include communication and swallowing disorders, world languages and linguistics, politics, social justice, and food.
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