Petulant patience Built-up backlog Bone-deep blockage Kept kept kept— Deposits compound in the gut-cavity Packed down data banks of discarded pleas Bitter bitter bile petrified Pressure points punctured but nothing bleeds Teeth-gritting decades Tongue-bit tolerance Deadbolt disappointment Dormant dormant dormant— Can't detonate the depot of defeated purpose Can't dislodge the packed-tight putrid sediment Tear ducts calcified Throat-box turned to tomb-box Knuckles begging for the break but the plaster stays pristine Docile to the detriment Paralyzed by protocols of politeness The body keeps the budget of its beatings Tucked tucked tucked tight Tabulated trauma in the tissue Growth of grotesque patience Cultivating cortisol gardens Tending to the tender brutality of Bottled-up becoming Perpetual postponement of the PURGE— Permanent deferment of the BURST— Pervasive passive pestilence of WAITING— Sitting sitting sitting in the Sedimented silence while the Skeletal structure starts to buckle Starts to BUCKLE but doesn't Break doesn't bend doesn't Permit the purgatory exit Temperature drops to tundra Cold becomes a compate Becomes a CAGE becomes a CASKET for the capacity to GIVE A DAMN Apathy appetít Averring the disgust Digesting the desire to destroy Depositing depositing depositing— Bitter particulate matter Accumulated acid Pit-deep pit-deep pit-deep Petrified petroleum deposits of Discarded dignity Watch the patient patient patient Patron saint of bottled tempest Keeper keeper keeper of the Cage that can't collapse Can't cry can't crack Can't cry can't crack Can't COMBUST can't COMBUST— Petulant Pervasive Permanent— The pang The pang The pang that doesn't pass.
