Infested Intestines

... and a beating heart.

You sit on the tip of my tongue,

Stuck in my mind like a laffy taffy in braces.

You’re a disease, reprogramming my heart,

Teaching it tricks it shouldn’t know.

How to skip

                        a beat,

How to open up for examination,

                                litigation to win something of yours, too.

Too,

Like two,

                 but more than I wanted.

 

To,

Like I want to love you,

But you’re too much

       for there to be two of us

Together.

 

I am a bubbling, boiling, burning mess of too many words,

                               two twisting inside me,

                               to flip flop my beating heart

Ba-bump

                        Ba-bump

           Ba-bump

                                   Ba-bump.

 

The acid in my stomach won’t kill the butterflies infested in my intestines.

Too much of you,

     more than I wanted…

                        

                            The flame I have is turning blue,

 

And you, you just sit, waiting at the tip of my tongue

Teaching my heart

That too much is never enough

 

And to love you,

As we two go together,

May kill the butterflies.

 

Ba-bump

                        Ba-bump

           Ba-bump

                                   Ba-bump.

Reviews

[Antonio Valentino]

Kate, this is so very good, I really enjoyed it. I've had this same feeling before, I think we all have.

You sit on the tip of my tongue,
Stuck in my mind like a laffy taffy in braces.
You’re a disease, reprogramming my heart,
Teaching it tricks it shouldn’t know.

Love that.
:)