Notes About The Poem

When someone decides to cut ties with you, their words feel like a guillutine.

Guillutine

The arc of teeth
the rising and falling of words 
Transcribing tangled knots 
sayings nonsensical
Incisors gnashing 
bone scrapes the blade.
Keep searching, keep searching, 
they are meant to be found,
to be bound by record.
Between both pens at 
the side of the skull
Is the archive of every schmuck 
sentenced
To receive the cold descent
Upon the neck’s nape 
that feels frigid
Is the greeting of 
a friend’s final conversation.
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