A bullfrog flew the moon into my shirt pocket
when i was born Slow glowing heartbeat When i turned eleven and my voice went walkabout My mother tried to convince me the frog had climbed into my throat Her eyes kaleidoscope pretending telescope Faulty stethoscope ears Where my voice echoed back needs no atlasing My body didn’t extend like a metaphor but i kept footnoting my youth like someone’s going to major in my autobiography Cliff notes for the autobiography of a swallowed frog pilot crash landed in a fictional pocket: Fuck rabbits Trees are infinite ladders of gin smelling future napkins so much mud Four years saving fly corpses until they fluttered into spaceship Fuck gravity navigating around bovine gymnasts and fiddling cats I caught the moon bobbing in space’s wake Moon as handkerchief Moon as party dress Moon as moon in unfamiliar galaxy There are so many moons in the universe The frog’s moon wasn’t local You haven’t seen it Frogs in throats are myths They settle in livers Frogs for hearts Rabbits for libido Fuck the moon The frog’s greatest achievement was beating Super Mario Brothers 3 in fifteen minutes Swallowing moons is so 1991 My voice’s greatest achievement was a three month vacation in a stranger’s ear The only parts of our bodies we ever shared A bullfrog flew my shirt into an ex’s closet It didn’t fit me anymore anyway The bullfrog hits eject like a spacebar on an old typewriter Fuck my mouth Galaxy of awkward images Uvula echo Uvula unreliable narrator Uvula promise echo Good intentions Uvula Mint flavored swamp water Fuck my lips Uvula echo frog legs Fuck fuck Ribbit Fuck achievements If the moon is a heart there is too much bullfrog in it The myth of my heart as satellite is a lie perpetrated by Lenny Kravitz and Slash like everything they wish was hurled into the vacuum of space they named my heart Axel Uvula Echo Ribbit I’ve never known where my voice is in realation to my heart
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