Mute

I wonder 

is your mouth crowded

with unexpressed adoration

stripped down just one last time?

or is it just spite?

You said (the 

perpetual) "it" once

after weeping while drunk.

Stupefied and speechless,

I held you and fucked you

and dreamed alongside you

'til you slunk down the hall

in the cruel sobering morning.

I wonder would you say it

if whiskey was muting, 

Would you say it if I