Slave Ship Logic

slaver \SLAV-uhr; SLAY-vuhr\, intransitive verb:

to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.

[Origin: 1275-1325; <>Middle English slaver (n.), slaveren (v.), probably < Scandinavian]

What is spittle?

the black rust of ground water;

the leaky soil?

What is clung to the cleft of my lips?

(Where is my tongue?)

I have fallowed the bed, searching:

sheets, now, of strewn stones;

veins; banks; belching; bones.

I have followed the red.

But blood is deceptive:

it pushes without pause;

pumps all ideas the same:

Blood is ever deceptive.

And it is,

unfortunately,

everywhere.

Except in my lost tongue:

there there is only

ash;

Dusty, grey, rolling swells of lonely carbon;

A profane land teeming with a seemingly endless absence;

There

there is

only gone.

Essence escapes me.

(gone)

Time drives home.

(gone)

Life is almost.

(gone)