Pain muffled the sounds of those words
and I got out of the car in moving traffic.

If you want to, you can really hear
your internal body sounds,
because your skeleton and inner tissues act as a conductor.
Or so I read in the pile of encyclopedias I used to read to fall asleep,
only to find myself catching up to the sunrise.

The next day the sunset caught up to me while we
sat on our bed and you held a knife to your throat.

I can say with certainty that defeat feels like a fever,
as you sit there waiting, patiently for death to come.