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The Problem
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The Problem

#Prompt 30

The problem is my mouth and how it is two parts of a gun,
the safety and the trigger

When I clench my jaw to use neither, I lower my weapon,
unlatch my tongue from the roof of my mouth to keep grace

The problem is how I forget that the distance you
take before me, doesn’t make you a moving target

When I am undone by a joke that doesn’t tease your laughter-lines
it is because rubber bullets still hurt

My fingers have no civility for sign language but yes,
when I hold them up and step outside of your bullet-proof embrace
I mean to surrender, to give up the entire weapon,
show you my underbelly and ask you in the name of forgiveness to draw blood.

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