Alice Cuenca - (! ! ! !) Utterly Unuttered

...finally alone
plunged
on the loveset
at Starbucks.
The conversation
at the next table
drowned out
Paul Simon's
'American tune'

I wish
I've brought
a book...
somehow,
I've managed
to tune out,
the transparency
of tones

...easy for them
but not for us
strangled
with words
unuttered
freeing us
from guilt
however...

what we desire kept us in prison

Alice Cuenca

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