[i 'unno]

at least I'll be honest about my lying:
I hide poems from you.

I tuck them away like buzzing phones during sex
push them back in, like garbage pressing from inside a bulging closet
bulging like my my cheeks while trying to wrap these appetent words in my tongue

shrugging like "[i 'unno]" with mouth and eyes full
of things I just can't let stream out

lest they damper our fine run

lest they make this tightrope too slippery