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You have never seen a piece like this,
Oh no,
We have here a mouth that never closes,
the teeth, yes, they continually chatter.
Those lips there form every sound there is.
The best part of all
is that if you whisper to it your secrets
the mouth remembers your every thought!
It will pack them away
and then it will repeat them to everyone it sees!
Soon everyone will know all of your deepest darkest secrets!
You no longer have to tell people things for yourself,
this mouth here can tell all of your stories with its own words.
Not only all of that, it can lie too!
Yes, it can exaggerate your stories,
it can even pretend it hasn't told them at all!
Such a laugh!
It can befriend you,
It can say, "I won't tell!"
What silly little, joyous lies this mouth can proclaim!
Get ready for no more privacy, no more trust,
and the joy of everyone knowing your personal life!
It's really a piece, I tell ya.
Throw on some pink gloss and you've got yourself a real piece.
Priceless.

rubadub.

Just a washing machine
that's all I'll ever live in
being washed and washed
and tossed around
tumbling and tumbling
a good washing couldn't hurt
Maybe, but people will keep opening it up,
throwing their dirty laundry right in there with me
And we'll tumble together
soiling and desoiling
dirty and not
the dizziness winning
I'll eventually have no skin left to clean
just the clatter of bones
tumbling
and that dirty laundry
all these things
so clean I cannot stand it
then mussied up once again
not a bath anymore
just washing and rewashing
and tumbling
no skin left
an ache,
around and around we go
soap and bubbles.