by Peter Pereira
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While the ear may hear what
the head heard, lips can slip or lisp.
Wrists will twist or twirl while
the hand writes the wriest writs—
lamps-lit palms opening to psalms.
the hand writes the wriest writs—
lamps-lit palms opening to psalms.
But when the spine is supine
and the penis ripens, the mind
neither snipes nor opines.