Taboos

This was a shock treatment.

Becoming friends 
with aperitifs.

We drink the eyes
in remorse.

Unabridged. I clean the words 
on the whiteboard. The 
tongues were black.

Dilemma of stings.
No flesh was left 
on the bones.

The body,
becomes a river.
You are drowned 
in pink folds.


Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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