eating all this sugar coated in fire
made me scream out little
well-known secrets like
your name to the sky
sent up to the clouds to sleep
like cavities
growing on my teeth.

i will ignore the distance.
i will pretend to know
what the clouds are thinking
tonight as we shout through sticky lips
all of this as our throats buckle,
once, twice, again--
they are thinking

what a sad world
it would be, if
there were no stars
in the day, if
these sparkles
ever were
to go out and fade.