Yes, Janet, for me it works much better. Andrew
On 26/12/06, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> A new version of this.
> Thanks mainly to Andrew's comments.
>
> Un/speak/able
>
> With what's left of my face after you
> have finished with it, your sun
> melted it, your shocks and switches
> scoured and scarified it, your challenges
> chopped and chiselled it, your licks and lays
> licked and lavaged it,
> ravaged it with your un
> speak
> able ways
>
> With whatever skin I still have,
> whatever still works in my eyes,
> whatever screams I have left,
> with hands turning to stone,
> with all my remaining teeth,
> with spider veins in my cheeks
> and enough flesh for one kiss
> in the thin ghosts of my lips
> I will finally speak your name.
>
> Throw off all fakery and surgery,
> present your name in the city,
> howl it in what's left of the country,
> throw it all over the Net.
> With every note left in my mouth.
>
> When you can see all of me,
> when you can hear all of me,
> when all the red things, sad things,
> good and bad things inside me
> no longer divide me from you
> I will finally, at last, in ecstasy speak
> your name, your name, your name, your un
> speak
> able name.
>
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> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
> http://www.proximity.webhop.net
>
> You cannot love alone
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>
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
http://www.bam.com.au/andrew
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