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Worries, Warts and a Teaspoon

Worries warts and a teaspoon 
a mosquito lives inside my liver
He escaped from the falling dune 
to make me his caregiver 
he brings his worries he brings his warts 
He crawls through my nose 
But alas his passport 
my liver makes room
As he feasts on pink flower flesh 
To make new 
A new cocoon 
I feel him writhe 
I feel him slither 
battle of my gushy mushy internal river 
sting my finger for the egg 
As sweet and bister as nutmeg 
And place my nipper in my ear 
Where she too   
Will inch on through 
On a teaspoon of worries and warts 
a  bitter taste of sorts 
I listen to the whispers 
Oh how nice 
oh how kind 
What a friend 
What a find  
A mosquito lives inside  
Worries warts and a teaspoon 
Forever, forever
God emperor of the dune

Copyright © Emma Ingram | Year Posted 2022



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Sister

to be everyone we see we wish to be
spoilt infidelity was the fragrance 
of our tragic continuum century 
of longing longing thee
favored face dressed in 
tailored knit smiles on Tuesday’s sin 
oh father are we seen 
as the misery kin 
ants rise on Lilies
in the teary meadow land 
we shall remain oh rightfully damned 
Blistering coils of copper tension make haste 
tangy veins peel back their mantle 
to self inject a poison of good-natured taste 
shudder of the mind 
with fine paper cut wrinkles
we make fingernail grind to season the sense 
breaking spoons for chains and stakes 
head loss of screws 
We should shatter the bones within him 
And break the ill-tempered man 
As we once found 
Ourselves 
Broken

Copyright © Emma Ingram | Year Posted 2022


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