Ash

I shouldn’t speak
shouldn’t open the night cave
of my mouth
as you’d see all the times I
bit my tongue
bleeding black ruby stars
getting drunk on their bitter iron hearts
and I shouldn’t speak
of the universes I swallowed
their darkness rolling, roiling
under my tongue
hanging beneath my palate
as pillars of smoke and clouds of ash
I shouldn’t speak
and yet I’ll talk the destruction at you

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