Bitter Taste Poem by Christina Simmons

A bitter taste in my mouth -
try as I may can't erase it
Can't seem to relinquish it - make it go away!
Off of my tongue for good so I can smile again
Revealing gap-tooth only for you, my man.

No use trying to mask the scent by eating various foods
Hoping different flavours will chase it out
when it doesn't want to leave

Allow it to submerge - there's no point sticking like glue
Resisting you - out forever once and for all:
you want to stay - I want you to go! Hocus pocus disappear!
DON'T FIX YOURSELF PERMENANTLY
Sucking all pure essence - selfishly taking it all
There's a bittersweet taste in my mouth:
More bitterness - awful as sin - hell has
No fury: it's all the same - I've been there before

Knives and razors distorting my body -
ripping it into chunks
Got to get away from demons resembling artefacts
When really just statues
Not even strayed dogs will eat unwanted pieces of rotten flesh:
No longer am I going to entertain this yucky taste on my palate
A foreign delicacy which no longer serves a purpose
Anyway not to my preference




Fish net tights maybe a turn on? But not for moi give plain old skin any day
Relish it just the same: I'll wear them with style just to turn you on: only cause you like it, so hype! Still this scent lingers: good stuff, amazing things are made of you




























28/7/16
Sylvestina Simmons