We speak in code. Fake smiles
accentuate our encryption
as we avoid truthful confessions.
Lips spread wide
over camouflaged terms
as tongues stutter and tangle
without grace.
The look in your eyes forces me into
deeper deciphering.
We calculate our positions and
plot our next move.
We speak in code.
Arlene is a novice writer who enjoys writing flash fiction and poetry.
Lips spread wide over camouflaged terms…love it!
Love this. Says so much in so few brilliantly chosen words.
Wonderful! Very Nietzschean – or not, depending on your point of view and relationship to truth – our relationship to truth and the relationship of truth to language being the point of the whole matter!