Mouth

Your lips are hot

      melt waxblack

in print

      but lips aren’t that different

      no matter how warm.

            I know your politics.

However, let’s remember a little chemistry:

WAX =

a mixture of monohydroxy alcohol esters

+ free fatty acids

+ free alcohols

+ higher hydrocarbons

(less dense than water, and so, obviously float)

 


by francis raven


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