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Stirring the porridge


curious as a morning toddler
i look up porridge in the dictionary
stop at definition no. 2:

to stir the porridge: to take one's turn relatively late in a pack-rape, etc...'

simple
milk-casual
breakfast-table words
they stop my joy

brutal as glass in the bath

imagine the woman –

boiling
relatively late
with shots of semen
multiple doses of wild oats
roughly sewn
with hate in the hands

boiling to
red porridge
as the pack keeps on scraping

i try to flench the words
but they keep on scraping

i want to create
right now

a world where
to stir the porridge
is only            ever
a charm
involving
oats and clean water
the muscled hand of a woman
worn kitchen spoons
a steady old saucepan
and comfort on cold mornings

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