Existential Speech Defect
Confusion cannot name
anything properly
I stutter at the heels
of a foreign Adam
I cannot pronounce the s
in verbs well because
they move too much
verbs swim and slither
whereas I am stone:
it's a speech defect
that's existential
Abiodun Salako
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 08/09/2020
Poet's note: This poem is a relic of a tiny confusion that could not be expressed well when my lover asked me to explain my silence. At that point, I became afraid of being lost in myself. This poem means a kind of relief from my fear of words.
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