Friday, July 19, 2024

SELF-DEFENSE WEAPONS

We all like 
to think we've 

closed the book 
on such studies, but 

could it be 
that, evolutionarily, 

the "purpose" of these 
tongues was 

not so much 
to speak 

as to 
tunnel themselves

firmly 
into our cheeks

as we 
effortfully cultivated 

a relationship 
with our melancholy 

which allowed us 
as a species 

to never mean 
what we feel,

to feel only
what we know,

and worst (read: most 
advantageous)

of all—to never know 
what that means?