Melt Down - Nelle Gevers
melt down
3 bars of steel
melt down
automatic locomotion
habits as families
melt down
parents
revolution
courage
melt down
accelerate
Shake
Shaky
Slipper
melt down
time as check point
streets as checked in
mails as checked out
puddles as cheating
Shows as cheerful
melt down
safety
lands
mines
hay
self
saturate
Melt down
Your runaway child
Your absent pill
Your loved kitchen
Your previous kill
Your runaway child
Your silent mother
Your killing void
melt down
This conscious thing you have
Their tepid lamb you crave
My appetite you crave
Your thirst I spill
Their laws that spit
My crave you have
My lamb its laws
Your laws I tear
and I
Melt down
This shirt
This brown
The Stain
The browser
The mail
The skype
The lake
The remote
The remote control
Melt down
We always write the same
We always sit on grass
We wave and weave and say
We crash a few computers
We leave the doors open
And yet we stand on the porche
We dance and we dont cook
We spill water in the kitchen
We stab each other in water
We lay in blood in the kitchen
Melt down
a face
a word
a line
a lace
a sword
embrace
speech
convulsion
introduction
stimuli
dot
Melt down
all meaning
of all names
of all families
of all memory
of all beauty
of all mouth
of all noun
of all name drop
of all lake
of all fountain
of all droplet
of all meaning
Melt down
3 bars of steel
3 welding helmets
3 times my child
3 highways
3 flames
3 opium pipes
3 Louis
3 Lauries
3 Laureates
3 eyes
3 comas
3 symptoms
3 cancers
Melt down
It’s a puddle
I froze a glass
it held like water
It stood in line
It wrote a book
Between 3 AM
And 5Am
In the kitchen
It kissed a glass
It had meaning
It chopped a knife
It opened 3 taps
It was tepid
And It did stab
Melt down
A puddle of meanings on a kitchen floor at 3 am whilst plays in the background the variations of a runaway child breaching grammar