CENSOR APPROACHING
The thrown switch of the state
approaching silence
on my tongue font size
letters measured by a ruler
Drugged by a phone
flag-gagged on the news-reel
tight threads of fish line
tourniquet my dry pen
Speaking volumes in 140 character
fragments the censor’s tweets
sparse My left hand curly
over erasure
pinkie skin unstained
Tied strapped I scribble
Out of laminate black the desktop grows
a wired chair rocks
First Publication: Sibling Rivalry Press, If You Can Hear This, Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration, 2017
