the safe word

is 'pumpkin'
not 'fuckme'
not 'harder'
not 'ohbebe'
not 'likean'
not 'animal'

you have the right

to remain silent
even now

every now
and then

anything you say 
can and will be 
used against you

in a court of law

you have the right to
have an attorney present 
during questioning

if you 
do not have an attorney 
one will be appointed 
for you 
by the court

it could come up in 
conversation 
of an evening
mayhap

is your attorney present?

prosecutorially speaking
i didn't want to have to 
be the one to tell it so

tehehe-ta

stones cry

late at night out in the garage
 smoking

the sound of automatic weapons 
 fire
seems to emanate from your location
on the roiling mists like the pall
 of a city, burning

i came there to 
tell you something

now anything i say
is a psychotic lie
i will remember it
so

stones cry 
forever

in this context

an emitter is just 
one component
in a circuit
which by definition 
performs work

she was glowing 
in the dark
down time 
a little way
slightly out of phase

the pain is mostly constant
like light plus or minus
no talk of caring
no talk at all
i just want to sit

i suspect you have
forgotten that as well
it will be better this way
with so much affirmation
so small a passing