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poetry

Spongebob

Gimme a --
A second
I'm --
Flipping 
words on my tongue
Like beef patties on a grill
Watching them shrink on themselves 
Then shrivel until they are barely the same animal
Fish flakes, 
dancing about like they're alive
On a hot--
hot stove
My chest is a furnace.
Housing a fire that is
More accustomed to swallowing
than to
The delicate art of ---
Of flipping 
But I'm trying
And, the beef will come out
Charred and black
and bitter
But you'll have beef
And I'm trying.