just please
don't speak
you speak and i can see hellfire pour out of your mouth. i can see your rotten teeth and your scaly tongue. i can see tiny fires vanquishing the living with blades of unrivalled steel. and i keep on looking because looking helps in blocking and blocking is quite vital here, right now, at this instant.
just please
don't stare
you stare and i can see your unruly face crinkle in confusion ((she he she he he she he she))
i can see your pasty face curl up in disgust ((just stop just stop just stop don't don't))
and i'm straightening lapels and my identity and the hem of my blue button down and tugging at my collar and my gender and my goddamn mind
just please
don't
let the world fall to silence and be as it once was and let us all sew up our lips and hum in unison ((hum hum hum))
but you don't hum like the rest of them;
you stare
