nut
raze if i'm up and down with you
it's because i weigh six ounces
and your breathing's playing me
like an airborne russian fiddle tune
something borrowed
something true
something tied around your ankle
where a tattoo used to be
before you gouged it out of your skin
with a grape hook

high carbon steel blade
hardwood handle from a hickory tree
i can see the compound leaves
indochina
mexico and assam
regal moths and walnut sphinx
cleophora
lymantriidae

you'd be larva in that tree
if you weren't what you are
and what you are is bitter fruit
making like a true botanical nut

so am i
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from