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Swallow

Carly Jeanne 2006

I swallow my words

With poison and poise 

I swallow my words

To keep peace

 pride

To keep me in

To swallow my words

I hold the letters beneath my tongue

Like pills waiting to come back up

I drink you in

To wash them back down

Ready to speak

You hold me down

By my throat you ease the letters in

Each thrust and squeeze knocks a letter down

only then

I swallow my words again

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Written on May 02, 2024

Submitted by carlyjeanne on May 03, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A x A x b a x x b c x c b c x
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 395
Words 90
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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