LANGUish

You wake up in my bed. But what we do

has no meaning. a small

set of words used

as substitutes

But what we do,

understood in context

it doesn't matter. And we don't mean what we do.

Lie there entangled. Strangled

in one, estranged in

an other with washed out

line n

one too, only

too [as submodifier]

a higher degree

than is desirable

We love lying quiet

like days of

you:

nonplused, sum one)

Because I — I don't mean — don't mean what I

say. And you — you mean — mean nothing you do.

Kaegan Sparks is a rising junior at the University of Pennsylvania. She plans to major in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and curates KWH Art Gallery at the Kelly Writers House. She likes orchids, especially.