someone help the woman
who writes em evol
backwards on the window of her 17th story apartment
she has learned the sad truth about words
and the woman under today's headline
Murder By Partners a Silent Epidemic
hands cover her mouth
she's sickened by the fine print
certain of another swindle
we need a language without holes or grappling hooks
a language smooth and useful as a spoon
where a woman can stand
far from the sentences
lumbering like circus trains through inattentive towns
every word a locked cage
the chesapeake and ohio
cowcatcher and all